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
Another time, the best wood, the bonne bouche, was carefully beaten through while we were discussing a recherché champagne luncheon.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
I like fowl's liver, it is my one bonne bouche during the day, but these startled me, and after straining my teeth on the carcase, I gladly swallow the soft mouthful.
From Three Months of My Life by Foster, J. F.
They also eat ostrich flesh, as an exceptional bonne bouche, and birds' eggs, and fish, which the women catch.
From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport
A Frenchman, employed as one of the butchers, had drawn out the dainty and placed it by his side, as a bonne bouche when his work was over.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter