basoche

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) A guild of legal clerks in pre-revolutionary France.

Etymology
,, from , from. The phonetic evolution was special in this case, as the expected result would be (cf. the place name ). Doublet of the borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) the guild of legal clerks of the Paris court system under the pre-revolutionary French monarchy, from among whom legal representatives (procureurs) were recruited;