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

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

This isn’t a little bijou shelter either—it’s a major animal control operation that takes in every unwanted animal in the greater Orlando area, to the tune of 8,000 dogs per year.

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2017

It was the daintiest bijou of boudoirs, all rose-silk, and silver, and filigree-work, and delicious Greuze paintings, smiling down from the fluted panels.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes