bon ton
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But then, the bon ton, not content with padding only bums, moved the bustle round to the tummy at the front.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
The book reports Lucius' ad ventures with "butlered bon ton."
From Time Magazine Archive
Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Modish.—Oh sir, excuse me, it is one of the privileges of the bon ton never to define, or be defined.
From Dialogues of the Dead by Henry Morley
Sir John Trotley, who does not understand bon ton, thinks this sort of flirtation very objectionable.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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