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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bougie /ˈbuːʒi/

▶noun (pl. bougies) Medicine a thin, flexible surgical instrument for exploring or dilating a passage of the body.

– origin C18: from Fr., lit. ‘wax candle’, from Arab. Bijāya, the name of an Algerian town which traded in wax.

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