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
His description of Millicent as an ex-chorus girl offered another bonne bouche to the crowd.
From The Silent Barrier by Tracy, Louis
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
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