Bon
[bɔ:n]
Definition
(a.) Good; valid as security for something.
Typist: Maura
Definition
adj. good—French occurring in some English but not Anglicised phrases as Bon accord good-will agreement; Bon mot a jest or smart saying; Bon ton good style the fashionable world; Bon vivant one who lives well or luxuriously.
Typist: Maxine
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see your bones protruding from the flesh, denotes that treachery is working to ensnare you. To see a pile of bones, famine and contaminating influences surround you.
Checker: Wendy
Examples
- In the meantime, in 1801, Le Bon, a Frenchman at Paris, had succeeded in making illuminating gas from wood, lit his house therewith, and proposed to light the whole city of Paris. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Bon voyage, Mademoiselle. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Look, Madame Crawley, you were always bon enfant, and I have an interest in you, parole d'honneur. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In 1801 Le Bon, of Paris, used a gas made from wood for lighting his house. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Leah smiled, and even Sophie bid me bon soir with glee. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Le bon Dieu only had ten. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You need not hurry when the object is only to prevent my saying a _bon_ _mot_, for there is not the least wit in my nature. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She drove out solemnly in their great family coach with them, and Miss Wirt their governess, that raw-boned Vestal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I like your face, Lady Jane: it's got none of the damned high-boned Binkie look in it; and I'll give ee something pretty, my dear, to go to Court in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- One night, very late, near Dublin, he met two of his brothers just as they had got into a violent row with three raw-boned, half naked Irish pats. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A large-boned lady, long past middle age, sat at work in a grim handsomely-furnished dining-room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He is perched on a large raw-boned hunter, half-covered by a capacious saddle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- However, Lord Graham is rather reserved; _mais ne méprisez pas les personnes froides; elles ont leurs bons c?tés. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Typist: Serena