bijou

Example Sentences

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With not even a loo on board, it’s definitely on the bijou side for an eight-hour working day, but for Sigwart, director of the marine laboratory at Queen’s University, Belfast, the experience is worth it.

From The Guardian

Sipsmith’s Master Distiller Jared Brown also has a passion for reviving lost drinks, like the bijou, a 19th century cocktail that resembles a Negroni made with green chartreuse.

From Seattle Times

The 107 residences at Gridiron are sheathed in glass but erected from the 115-year-old Johnson Plumbing building — with the result being a perfect marriage of rustic charm and bijou modernism.

From Seattle Times

But do you go for the bijou kind attached to car windows, or the sheet-sized flags large enough to drape a house - or bigger?

From BBC

The upshot is rooms full of earnest, bespectacled faces peering down at this bijou publication like race-goers studying the formbook at the Grand National.

From BBC