bourgeon

British  

/ ˈbɜːdʒən /

noun

1. a variant spelling of burgeon

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Example Sentences

And further still the summer, When thy fair tree, fully grown, Shall bourgeon, and grow splendid With blossoms of its own, And the fruit begins to gather, But the buttercups are mown.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

We suffer that we may be purified; but a Union broader, juster, and more beneficent than any the world has yet seen, is to bud, bourgeon, and bloom from this bloody contest.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theatres and the lights of the ballroom, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out.

From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx

Statistics bourgeon into prophecies under his pen: he does not disdain their significance, but rather aids their influence with all the power which his spasmodic style has given in drawing our grotesque-loving public to him.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Their problems began to bourgeon immediately after they left New Jersey and went to Kedzie's old apartment for further debate as to their future lodgings.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert