bonne bouche
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On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: “The White Nile” by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
I would make the country my stable meal, my chops and fried potatoes, and London my occasional savoury bonne bouche.
From The Oyster by Peer
This was the bonne bouche with which, in her part of the world, Devonshire I think she said, a breakfast to be perfect must always conclude.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 by Various
Many other insects, highly repugnant to the European, are a bonne bouche for the natives.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
Calf’s feet, à la maître d’hôtel, then my innocent bonne bouche, he completely spoiled for me by Job’s tidings from Germany, which he scraped together out of the most unreliable newspapers.
From The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete by Sheppard, Nathan