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Bolduque

/bolˈduke/

proper noun/bolˈduke/

's-Hertogenbosch (a city in the Netherlands)

A contraction of bosque del duque (literally “the duke's forest”), or from French Bois-le-Duc, both a calque of the Dutch name for the city, 's-Hertogenbosch, with the same literal meaning.