sb. pl. [F. bouts ends + rimés rhymed.] Rhymed endings: see first quot.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 60, ¶ 8. The bouts-rimez were the favourites of the French nation for a whole age together…. They were a List of Words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another Hand, and given to a Poet, who was to make a Poem to the Rhymes in the same Order that they were placed upon the List.
1824. Byron, Juan, XVI. l. Sonnets to herself, or bouts rimés.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, Introd. 4. Weary of repeating such bouts rimés as the Rhine and the land of the vine.
