bonhomous

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Georges Briguet, the bonhomous owner of Le Périgord, who greeted and seated guests by name nightly at that classic haute cuisine French restaurant in Manhattan for a half-century, died on July 26 in Montauk, N.Y.

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

You don’t necessarily go to a meyhane for great food; a bonhomous atmosphere matters more.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2011

In this simple sentiment we can find hope, as we can in the efforts of those cleaning up the debris and ash in bonhomous, broom-wielding posses.

From The Guardian • Aug. 11, 2011

He was then totally at home as the bonhomous but mountingly indignant Mr Hardcastle in a revival of Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer at the Young Vic in 1972.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2011

The Good Eggs never made a mistake in dress: they only wore old school colors or Varsity club colors: they were bonhomous, hearty, careless, and rowdy in large groups.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton