bonjour
Americaninterjection
Example Sentences
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She greeted me with warm eyes and a soft bonjour, her long gray hair pulled back behind her head.
From The Verge ● Feb. 13, 2015
But in France, bonjour means much more than that.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2014
He compared the men replying to his messages to "starving piranhas, no bonjour, no pleasantries, it was direct and crude".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
Say bonjour to Frédéric Flamand, the new director of the Cannes International Dance Festival, appointed after its director of 18 years, Yorgos Loukos, stepped down in 2009.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2011
The only word I knew in French was bonjour, which did me no good.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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