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or “Eyes to the Blind.” A walking stick with which a blind man guides his way. In French argot bougie means a walking stick.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.