bijou

Example Sentences

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"We've kind of wanted to stay a very bijou, boutique studio... we're not too big, we're quite keen to stay a sensible size where everyone can feel like they're involved."

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

“Watermark is also a must,” says Maul of the bijou bookstore.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

After his friends go home, he makes for his bedroom, a bijou space to the rear of the apartment that’s appointed with a simple antique Iranian table and a Flos Parentesi lamp.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

It was a bijou steak house compared to the wood-panelled leviathans they would eventually launch.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019

There were sale bills out before long at Lady Littletown’s bijou residence at Hampton, and also at Lady Anna Maria Morton’s house in Bryanston Square.

From A Double Knot by Fenn, George Manville