BOUTS-RIMÉS, in French poetry, a set of rhymes, disposed in order, and given together with a subject, to be filled up with verses. The invention is ascribed to one Ducot, in the year 1649. In fixing the bouts, it was usual to choose such as seemed to have the least connection. The academy of Lanternists at Toulouse contributed towards keeping in countenance the bouts-rimés, by proposing annually a set of fourteen, to be filled up on the glories of the Grand Monarque, and by offering a medal as the prize. The following, filled up by Commire, is a specimen of these conceits:—