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

The narrator, a well-meaning gossip, left the presbytery in consternation, and forbore from further repetition of what was to her a "bonne bouche."

From Grey Town An Australian Story by Baldwin, Gerald

Tom had fixed on this pool as his bonne bouche, as a child keeps its plums till the last, and stole over the bridge, stooping low to gain the point indicated.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

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

They also eat ostrich flesh, as an exceptional bonne bouche, and birds' eggs, and fish, which the women catch.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport