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

However, the gull thought the matter over, and soon devised an excellent scheme for capturing the four or five sparrows which it required as a daily bonne bouche.

From Harper's Young People, November 11, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

If he had been, I should have passed the letter to him as a bonne bouche, for this really was his show, and I wanted him to have all the plums.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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

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