The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boughten \Bought"en\, a.
Purchased; not obtained or produced at home.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
irregular past participle of buy; as an adjective from 1793, especially in colloquial U.S. usage, of clothing and other items, opposed to "made."\n\nBOUGHTEN. Which is bought. This is a common word in the interior of New England and New York. It is applied to articles purchased from the shops, to distinguish them from similar articles of home manufacture.
[Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]
Wiktionary
(label en archaic or regional Cornwall US) Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade). v
(label en archaic or regional chiefly US) (past participle of buy English)
WordNet
adj. purchased; not homemade; "my boughten clothes"; "a store-bought dress" [syn: store-bought]
Usage examples of "boughten".
Against the wall under the window was the sofa, a boughten sofa with a curved wooden back and one end curved up.
Their hinges were boughten hinges, and it was marvelous to see them open and shut.
Pa set boughten locks, with keys that went into small, shaped holes, and turned and clicked.
The top rose up on boughten hinges, and under it was the place where she kept things.
She supposed it went over well in the junior mess of the Royal Space Service, where the young sprouts of aristocracy and wealth flaunted their boughten commissions in the intervals of leave and training.