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Meanings of boughten in English

Purchased; not homemade.

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        1
        But I hate to see those boughten lawyers ragging him in court.
        Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
        2
        His father had gone into the grocery business and Henry wore boughten clothes.
        The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Ti...
        3
        We had store boughten shoes but the women made our clothes.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        4
        They was boughten socks from Mrs. Carslake's shop of all sorts.
        The Torch and Other Tales
        5
        I thought it made no difference at all about my having those boughten buttons.
        Authors and Friends
        6
        Housekeepers were unacquainted with boughten brushes and corn-brooms and sweeping-machines.
        The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State ...
        7
        Clothes kin be boughten agin,butInever'dbeabletogitanudderBrutus.
        The Chums of Scranton High / Or, Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
        8
        I don't like these boughten scents-buta whiff of sweet-grassbelongs anywhere a lady does.
        Anne's House of Dreams
        9
        The home-made candles and decorations were pronounced to be as good as the "boughten ones."
        Dorian
        10
        We never knew what boughten clothes were.
        Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
        11
        But he tried to find comfort in thinking that he would have a boughten suit before very long.
        Round Anvil Rock: A Romance
        12
        I've boughten in Johnson's shares, and the whole of Netley's, and I'll stay with her till she breaks.
        Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
        13
        My first 'boughten' jacket was an olive green broadcloth,- aremnantwhich was bought cheap because it was a remnant.
        Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, a...
        14
        Even mother's own wooden rocking-chair, a bit of boughten elegance, with its gay patchwork cushion, and dull, contented creak!
        The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Vo...
        15
        I produced and lit what he contemptuously called a "boughten cigaroot"-TurkishRegie, with the scent of aboriginal ambrosia.
        The Eye of Zeitoon
        16
        I hain't only wearing these gayly, boughten clothes, I 'm a-fla'nting the robes of joy and the gyarments of praise.
        Sight to the Blind
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