bonhomous
Britishadjective
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Georges Briguet, the bonhomous owner of Le Périgord, who greeted and seated guests by name nightly at that classic haute cuisine French restaurant in Manhattan for a half-century, died on July 26 in Montauk, N.Y.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
You don’t necessarily go to a meyhane for great food; a bonhomous atmosphere matters more.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2011
In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2011
I'd made a lot of friends during my stay in New York, the city being crammed with bonhomous lads who one and all extended a welcoming hand to the stranger in their midst.
From Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
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