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
“Five thousand! a nice little bonne bouche for Harley!” says Hilton.
From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville
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
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
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