bonbon
Americannoun
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a fondant, fruit, or nut center dipped in fondant or chocolate; a chocolate.
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a piece of confectionery; candy.
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of bonbon
1790–1800; < French: literally, good-good; a repetitive compound, originally nursery word
Example Sentences
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The company developed ice-cream bites called Magnum Bonbon, which proved wildly popular in Europe and it is planning to bring to the U.S., ter Kulve said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
The Nutcracker Bonbon Collection features chocolates inspired by the San Francisco Ballet's rendition of Tchaikovsky’s holiday ballet.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024
No, no, no, it was "beautiful and flawless," argued Guillaume Monnier in Le Bonbon Nuit.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023
THE narrator of Paul Beatty’s fourth novel, “The Sellout”, is Bonbon, a black man who grows artisanal watermelons and marijuana in southern California.
From Economist • Oct. 26, 2016
And Prince Bonbon, who had got into the largest Christmas-tree, had eaten all the candy upon it, and grown so fat that he could not move, but stuck up there among the branches.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 by Various
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