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 bijou dwelling is an example of what campaigners say is a growing phenomenon of micro-homes, driven by high rent and property prices.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2022
It was a bijou steak house compared to the wood-panelled leviathans they would eventually launch.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2019
It is so like you,’ said the lady fondly, as she bade him good-bye, telling the little forlorn lad to be a good boy, and drove to her little bijou residence in Mayfair.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.