Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Boutade"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Boutade \Bou*tade"\, n. [F., fr. bouter to thrust. See {Butt}.]
An outbreak; a caprice; a whim. [Obs.]
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