bijou
Example Sentences
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This year's search showcased a variety of home styles including quirky conversions, grand designs, period renovations and bijou pads.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2023
“Watermark is also a must,” says Maul of the bijou bookstore.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022
The bedrooms are bijou, with a clean, functional feel: bare brick painted brilliant white, wiring hidden in aluminium tubes, TV, coffee and tea things on a small chest of drawers.
From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2019
We do not wonder that Mr. Morton’s face beams in satisfaction when he contemplates the result of his labors to make his new “club house” the bijou of the town.
From Slate • Jun. 2, 2019
At the bijou Lucy, or her mother, or the favourite maid, had always been at hand to make good her deficiencies with a reproach which had never gone beyond a smile or a kiss.
From Ayala's Angel by Trollope, Anthony