Example Sentences

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Along the boulevards booths and baraques for the sale of New Year's gifts were already in course of erection, the shops were gay with bright colored bonbonnieres.

From Dreams and Dream Stories by Kingsford, Anna Bonus

Now every day at dessert France heaps before us her daintiest sugar-plums in gilt bonbonnieres.

From What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

All the sham articles had been left untouched; he had gone off with nothing but genuine things—a few precious crucifixes and bonbonnieres.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

Now every day at dessert France heaps before us her daintiest sugar-plums in gilt /bonbonnieres/.

From What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A card of courtesy is always sent with flowers, books, bonbonnieres, game, sweetmeats, fruits—any of the small gifts which are freely offered among intimate friends.

From Manners and Social Usages by Sherwood, Mrs. John M. E. W.