bonne amie

[baw na-mee]

noun

French.

plural

bonnes amies 

1. a good female friend.

2. a female sweetheart or lover.

Example Sentences

“Ma bonne amie!” said Gabriel, embracing her.

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“Je suis son bonne amie,” thus she translated the explanation of her unconcealed happiness, “I’m a good friend of his,” nodding at the old man with the full sweetness of her dimples; blushing a little, too, with the pride of addressing him directly in French.

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And then he gives another part of it to his mistress, or bonne amie, because he loves her, and likes to see her finely dressed out; and as for the remainder, why, faith! he spends it among his friends.

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She is a gold and silver polisher, his bonne amie. 

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"The woman was of course poor Dupré's"—and then something in Jacques de Wissant's pallid face made him substitute, for the plain word he meant to have used, a softer, kindlier phrase—"poor Dupré's bonne amie," he said.

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