bonne bouche

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

Now for something which I have kept as the bonne bouche of my earthy story.

From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Clough Williams-Ellis

They put into their mouths all that they happen to find, and will sometimes reserve a quantity, and present the choice collection as a bonne bouche to their husbands.

From The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. by John West

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

Your Highness must pardon an old invalid if he retires with the memory of that witty tale in his mind as a bonne bouche.'

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hon. Agnes Blanche Marie Hay