bonne
a maid-servant.
a child's nurse.
Origin of bonne
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How to use bonne in a sentence
En cette disette on eut avis de quelques racines que les Sauvages mangent au besoin, lesquelles sont bonnes comme Truffes.
George Sand describes it as "un peu exuberant de style, mais rempli de bonnes choses et de tres-belles pages."
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksWith Boucher the idea of honour, of innocence, has become something strange; the new age requires virtue, bonnes mœurs.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherJ'entends principalement la participation qu'ont tous les fidles au fruit des bonnes uvres les uns des autres.
The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal | Blaise PascalThe keeper then carried me to see the wague-bonnes, which the duke of Austria had constructed to combat the Bohemians.
Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.
British Dictionary definitions for bonne
/ French (bɔn) /
a housemaid or female servant
Origin of bonne
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