Definition of Goutte

1. Noun. (heraldry) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Goutte

1. a drop [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Goutte

goustier
goustiest
gousty
gout
gout arthritis
gout diet
gout suppressants
goutflies
goutfly
goutier
goutiest
goutily
goutiness
goutinesses
gouts
goutte (current term)
gouttes
goutweed
goutweeds
goutwort
goutworts
gouty
gouty arthritis
gouty diathesis
gouty pearl
gouty urine
gouvernante
gouvernour
gov
gov't

Literary usage of Goutte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1878)
"BOOK TRADE JOURNAL With which is incorporated tht American Literary goutte ana Publishers' Circular [ESTABLISHED 1852] F. LEYPOLDT, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1905)
"Breast-feeding is encouraged, but usually the great majority of the infants are hand-fed, and in fact the goutte de Lait is mainly intended to succour those ..."

3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1848)
"Indeed, the word goutte has also actually been pressed into the negative ... as 'Je n'entends goutte — Je ne vois goutte;' 'I hear nothing— I see nothing. ..."

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