The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boutade
Boutade \Bou*tade"\, n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See Butt.] An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]
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boutade
n. (context obsolete English) An outbreak; a caprice; a whim.
Usage examples of "boutade".
Meantime, his affairs at home went upside down: and his two brothers had a wretched time where his first boutade[18] was, to kick both their wives one morning out of doors, and his own too.
Guizot, "Tacite a peint les Germains comme Montaigne et Rousseau les sauvages, dans un acces d'humeur contre sa patrie: son livre est une satire des moeurs Romaines, l'eloquente boutade d'un patriote philosophe qui veut voir la vertu la, ou il ne rencontre pas la mollesse honteuse et la depravation savante d'une vielle societe.