Also 8 bouillion. [F. bouillon, f. bouillir to boil.]
1. Broth, soup. Also in comb.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr. (as Fr.)
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Sorrel, Bouillons or thin Broth.
c. 1865. Circ. Sc., I. 343/2. What in France is sold under the name of bouillon-cakes, is nothing but gelatine.
2. A saline ‘bath,’ or solution of an alkali, in which wool is steeped previous to dyeing.
1791. Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. II. i. Wool Boiled in a bath with saline substances—this is called the bouillon.
3. An excrescence of flesh in the foot of a horse.
4. In Dressmaking. A puffed fold.
1869. Daily News, 4 March, 2/6. Her Serene Highness Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein wore a blue satin train, trimmed with bouillonnes of white tulle, [etc.].
