bon ton
Example Sentences
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But then, the bon ton, not content with padding only bums, moved the bustle round to the tummy at the front.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
Bullock's Wilshire, tony Los Angeles department store, went after war-workers' dollars; Macy's, New York's people's store, waved farewell to the bon ton trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
The book reports Lucius' ad ventures with "butlered bon ton."
From Time Magazine Archive
She founded the American Art Students' Club�now Reid Hall�made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mercury.—Then, madam, you have wasted your time, faded your beauty, and destroyed your health, for the laudable purposes of contradicting your husband, and being this something and this nothing called the bon ton.
From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
