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noun, feminine

bougresse

/bu.ɡʁɛs/

noun, feminine/bu.ɡʁɛs/plural: bougresses

trout (an objectionable elderly woman); young, unmarried woman known for having a 'wild side'; female equivalent of bougre: girl, dudette, lass (term of address)

1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, p. 163; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland— Ten minutes away, it was a hammam kept by a very clean old trout who smoked gold-tipped cigarettes through her veil.

From bougre + -esse (“-ess”).