bonne
Americannoun
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a maid-servant.
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a child's nurse.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bonne
Literally, “good (feminine)”
Example Sentences
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It’s the bonne chance, as we say in French.
From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2024
Most of the letter was penned by a secretary but features six lines of Mary's writing and is signed "votre bien bonne amye, Marie", meaning "your good friend".
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2022
You can even add “Alexa, bonne nuit” to the same routine thanks to Amazon’s support for multilingual households.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2021
And for what it’s worth, Emily’s chambre de bonne has very cute curtains.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2020
She made no ineffectual efforts to conduct her household en bonne m4nagdre, going and coming as it suited her fancy, and, so far as she was able, lending herself to any passing caprice.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
At a rally in Paris, about 500 women proclaimed their solidarity with Diallo: "Nous sommes toutes les bonnes."
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2011
In Paris, the old-fashioned bonnes are few and far between.
From Time Magazine Archive
We stood with the bonnes and babies under the trees of the square before it, gazing up at the belfry with most severe countenances,—and learned, afterwards, that the bell had been long since removed!
From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline
Compare a bookseller’s catalogue of 1862 with one of the present year, and your pessimism is washed away by the tears which unrestrainedly flow as you see what bonnes fortunes you have lost.
From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine
You go ovaire-board bose of you, and I am vair sorry for ze bonnes mammas.”
From Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days by Rainey, W. (William)
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