bijou

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

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

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019

Now, the company has reinterpreted that iconic bijou for modern times.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2017

This isn’t a little bijou shelter either—it’s a major animal control operation that takes in every unwanted animal in the greater Orlando area, to the tune of 8,000 dogs per year.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2017

The Plaza is none of your bijou caravanserais.

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)