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

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

If he had been, I should have passed the letter to him as a bonne bouche, for this really was his show, and I wanted him to have all the plums.

From The Brightener by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

I would make the country my stable meal, my chops and fried potatoes, and London my occasional savoury bonne bouche.

From The Oyster by Peer

"In my quality of ogre only—a bonne bouche," said he.

From Jaffery by Locke, William John