bonne bouche

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On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: “The White Nile” by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2023

Another time, the best wood, the bonne bouche, was carefully beaten through while we were discussing a recherché champagne luncheon.

From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham

I did not like the idea of having all the specimens of the fine arts in Europe collected into one "bonne bouche" at the Louvre.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Your Highness must pardon an old invalid if he retires with the memory of that witty tale in his mind as a bonne bouche.'

From A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

“It’s rather curious, sir,” he said, handing a letter, which he had been keeping back as a sort of bonne bouche for the last piece of business transacted that morning.

From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville