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Boucher

Boucher may refer to:

  • Boucher (surname), a family name (including a list of people with that name)
  • Anthony Boucher An author and editor of science fiction and mystery
  • François Boucher (1703–1770), a prominent French painter
  • Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine, a naturopathic medical college in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • Boucher Manufacturing Company, an American toy company
  • R. v. Boucher, a 1951 Supreme Court of Canada decision that overturned a conviction for seditious libel in criticizing the government
  • In re Boucher, a 2007 U.S. criminal case raising the question of compelled production of cryptographic keys
  • Boucher (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
  • Boucher, Quebec, a former name of Trois-Rives, Quebec
Boucher (surname)

Boucher is a surname that evolved during the medieval era in the French region of Champagne. It was an occupational name for someone who worked as a butcher. The name originally derived from the Old French word bochier, which means "butcher". The English word butcher is from Middle English bo(u)cher, itself from Anglo-Norman *bucher.

Boucher (horse)

Boucher (1969 – after 1986), was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In Ireland he won the Beresford Stakes as a two-year-old in 1971 and went on to win the Nijinsky Stakes and the Desmond Stakes in 1972. In September 1972 he was sent to England where he won the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster. At the end of the season he was retired to stand as a stallion in Australia, where he had some success as a sire of winners.

Usage examples of "boucher".

Men-at-arms and citizens, enraptured, accompanied her in crowds to the Church of Sainte-Croix, whither she went first to give thanks, then to the house of Jacques Boucher, where she was to lodge.

Queen scripts were written by the never-credited Boucher and Manny Lee.

EQ plots are also very much like friendly letters, full of little asides in which he explains to Manny where this or that idea came from or what movie actor Boucher had in mind in creating this or that suspect.

Ellery resolves the puzzle magnificently, although most listeners probably fell into the trap for the overly clever that Boucher and Manny cunningly built into the story.

August 3, the master sleuth of the airwaves had become a socially involved liberal very much like Tony Boucher and Manny Lee.

Fred, Manny, George Zachary, Tony Boucher, everyone who had a continuing role in the network series except ninety-year-old Richard Coogan, who played Ellery for a few short weeks.

Annabel favored lighter canvases with frolicsome color and romantic subject matter, like the Impressionists or the eighteenth-century French painters Boucher, Fragonard, and Watteau.

Pete Boucher said Shorty was heading for your trailer sometime after twelve.

Tony Boucher was the first to add a discerning sensitivity to good writing.

One of the reasons Boucher gave for leaving the magazine was the hope of finding more time for his own writing.

Tony Boucher was very anxious to have a particular major anthologizer (whom we will call J.

The boucher, charcutier, dishwasher and I wrestle the beast down the stairs, its head bouncing gruesomely on each step.

Anthony Boucher, the most dearly loved and equally important person in SF, had a program of vocal music on a local radio station, and due to my interest in classical music I listened to the program.

Halfway along the old road the two mercenaries found the abandoned farm that Boucher had described, or rather they found the faded notice board pointing down the track to the farm, which was hidden from view by a clump of trees.

So wildly awful were these submissions that Boucher took to photostatting and saving them in a special folder.