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▪ I. † boucher Obs. Also bowchyer, bowger. [Boucher appears to be a corruption of bowger, and this a deriv. of bowge, bouge ‘bag, wallet,’ perh. in sense of ‘purse’; but cf. bowser1.] A treasurer, cashier, bursar.
c1450Gregory's Chron. 139 At the same tabylle the bowgerys of the chauncery. 1494Fabyan vii. 586 At y⊇ same table sat the bowchyers of the Chauncery. 1583Stanyhurst æneis i. 29 Pigmalions riches..that pinchepeny boucher. ▪ II. boucher obs. form of butcher. |