bougee

Updated: May 17, 2025

THE TRUE YANKEE SAILOR. The managers of the Cape Horn Theatre beg leave to inform the inhabitants of the Pacific and Southern Oceans that, on the afternoon of the Fourth of July, 184 , they will have the honour to present the admired drama of THE OLD WAGON PAID OFF! Commodore Bougee . . . . Tom Brown, of the Fore-top. Captain Spy-glass . . . . Ned Brace, of the After-Guard.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War

Our ship, be it know, was the flag-ship; that is, we sported a broad-pennant, or bougee, at the main, in token that we carried a Commodore the highest rank of officers recognised in the American navy. The bougee is not to be confounded with the long pennant or coach-whip, a tapering serpentine streamer worn by all men-of-war.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War

Hardy he is, and wise; I undertake With many a tempest has his beard be shake. From the Canterbury Tales, White-Jacket! and must not old Ushant have been living in Chaucer's time, that Chaucer could draw his portrait so well?" The rebel beards, headed by old Ushant's, streaming like a Commodore's bougee, now stood in silence at the mast.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War