Obs. rare. Also bowrage. [app. an erroneous form for Fr. bourg.] Bourage of Saint Peter: The suburb of Rome called the Borgo, containing St. Peter’s, the Vatican, etc.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cccxxvi. 510. The romayns … came into the bowrage of saynt Peter. Ibid., cccxlvi. 549. They … conquered the bourage of saynt Peter.
