bougie vs rush candle

bougie

noun
  • A wax candle. 

  • A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie. 

  • A person who exhibits bougie behavior. 

adj
  • Fancy or good-looking, without the same connotations of snobbery or pretentiousness as in sense 1. 

  • Behaving like or pertaining to people of a higher social status, middle-class / bourgeois people (sometimes carrying connotations of fakeness, elitism, or snobbery). 

rush candle

noun
  • A candle of tallow or wax that uses a piece of rush as a wick. 

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