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

Etymology

Origin of bonbonnière

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

Example Sentences

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bonbonnière bonbonnières

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 Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)

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 Strange, Michael

Each girl found a gardenia at her plate and a silver bonbonnière with the St. Ursula monogram on the cover.

From Just Patty by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)

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

From Jaffery by Locke, William John

Demosthenes looked at Holmes with blank amazement, and, to keep from stammering out the exclamation of wonder that rose to his lips, he opened his bonbonnière and swallowed a pebble.

From The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by Bangs, John Kendrick

The largest table had a strip of rare Persian embroidery laid across it, and was graced rather than laden with novels, boxes of sweets, and silver bonbonnières.

From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

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 Labouchere, Henry

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

From The Girl From His Town by Vorst, Marie Van

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 Dawson, William Francis

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 Dawson, William Francis