bonbonnière

American  

[bon-buh-neer, -nyair, bawn-baw-nyer] / ˌbɒn bəˈnɪər, -ˈnjɛər, bɔ̃ bɔˈnjɛr /

noun

• bonbonnières
  plural

1. a person or store that makes or sells candies.

2. a box or dish for candies.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bonbonnières
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of bonbonnière

First recorded in 1810–20; from French; bon-bon “candy” (in French baby-talk) + -ière noun suffix; see -ary ( def. )

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Example Sentences

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bonbonnière bonbonnières

The room into which Liosha sailed was the elegant "bonbonnière" of a chamber known as the "boudoir."

From Jaffery by William John Locke

There were cavaliers, sweeps, princesses, and beggar-maids, but no one attracted more notice than Fairy Queen, who instead of dancing glided about amongst the company, offering fondants and caramels from her big bonbonnière.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

Most agreeably surprised was I," he writes in his "Crotchets and Quavers," published in 1855, "on entering this small but comfortably arranged bonbonnière.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Queen You seem to be throwing dirt at one another out of a bonbonnière.

From Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes by Michael Strange

From her waist depended an elaborate bonbonnière, her sash was dotted all over with imitation confections of various kinds, her blue satin shoes had rosettes of tiny bonbons, and her domino suggested chocolate cream.

From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

There were chocolates in little silver bonbonnières and even crackers, though it was not yet Christmas.

From Monitress Merle by Angela Brazil

It was souvenir night; there were post-cards and little coral caps with feathers as bonbonnières.

From The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

This is a heavy tax upon those who have more friends than money—300fr. is not considered an extraordinary sum to spend upon these bonbonnières.

From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

There are bonbonnières in a variety of forms, some of them very magnificent and expensive; while the Christmas cards range in prices from a cent to ten dollars each.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson

These bonbonnières, decked with expensive ribbon or hand-painted with designs of the season, attain prices as high as forty dollars each, and are in great favour among the wealthy classes.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson

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