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noun, feminine

bosse

/bɔs/

noun, feminine/bɔs/plural: bosses

bump (small elevated level); hump (of e.g. a camel or zebu); dent (in e.g. a car panel); mogul

Inherited from Middle French bosse, from Old French boce (“protrusion, outgrowth, lump”), from Frankish *bottja. Compare Occitan bòssa, Italian boccia and bozza; cf. also Romanian bot.