bonze
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bonze
1580–90; < Middle French < Portuguese bonzo or New Latin bonzius < Japanese bonsō, bonzō ordinary priest ( bon- ordinary + sō priest < Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese f án-sēng ); or < dialectal Japanese bonzu for bōzu priest
Example Sentences
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“Hopefully it’s soon,” Elway said Friday night at a ceremony dedicating a bonze likeness of Bowlen outside Sports Authority Field.
From Washington Times • Nov. 2, 2015
"The robe does not make the bonze," said Mme.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wily and ruthless, Delphic and adept, he is the best of breed of a new kind of back room bonze.
From Time Magazine Archive
It took him seven years—years in which ostensibly he lived the life of an ordinary, if exceptionally austere, bonze.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’s painted himself in the style of a bonze, looking a little bit Japanese.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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