Bouillon Definition

bo͝olyŏn, -yən, bo͝oyŏn
noun
A clear broth, usually of beef.
Webster's New World

An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.

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Origin of Bouillon

  • First attested 1656, from French bouillon, from the verb bouillir (“to boil”), from Old French boillir, from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

    From Wiktionary

  • French from Old French from boulir to boil from Latin bullīre from bulla bubble

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bouillon Sentence Examples

  • Bouillon remained French till 1814, and Vauban called it "the key of the Ardennes."

  • The French legend of the knight of the swan is attached to the house of Bouillon, and although William of Tyre refers to it about 1170 as fable, it was incorporated without question by later annalists.

  • Godfrey of Bouillon, the leader of the expedition and the first king of Jerusalem, was duke of Lower Lorraine, and the names of his brothers Baldwin of Edessa and Eustace of Boulogne, and of Count Robert II.

  • Godfrey of Bouillon, with his brother Baldwin, led the crusaders of Lorraine along "the road of Charles the Great," through Hungary, to Constantinople, where he arrived on the 23rd of December.

  • Bohemund's policy seems to have inspired Baldwin, the brother of Godfrey of Bouillon to emulation; on the one hand he strove to thwart the endeavours of Tancred, the nephew of Bohemund, to begin the foundation of the Eastern principality for his uncle by conquering Cilicia, and, on the other, he founded a principality for himself in Edessa.

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