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bonheur-du-jour

American  
[buh-nur-doo-zhoor, -dyoo-, -duh-, baw-nœr-dy-zhoor] / bəˈnɜr duˈʒʊər, -dju-, -də-, bɔ nœr düˈʒur /

noun

French Furniture.
  • bonheurs-du-jour
    plural
  1. a delicate fall-front desk of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of bonheur-du-jour

1875–80; < French: literally, happiness of the day, from the favor it found in its time


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