bijou

Example Sentences

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“Watermark is also a must,” says Maul of the bijou bookstore.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

After his friends go home, he makes for his bedroom, a bijou space to the rear of the apartment that’s appointed with a simple antique Iranian table and a Flos Parentesi lamp.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

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

It was a bijou steak house compared to the wood-panelled leviathans they would eventually launch.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019

The President-elect was living in a very small house in Willet Street, what we should call a bijou residence.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix