Bijou
[bi:ʒu:]
Definition
(n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
Editor: Roxanne
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Jewel, trinket, elegant ornament.
Edited by Arnold
Definition
n. a trinket: a jewel: a little box:—pl. Bijoux (be-zhōō′).—n. Bijou′try jewellery: small articles of virtu.
Checked by Alissa
Examples
- It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The first theatre in the United States to be lighted by an Edison isolated plant was the Bijou Theatre, Boston. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Montague