Meanings
nounbonbonnière (plural bonbonnières)
plural bonbonnières
- alternativeAlternative spelling of bonbonniere
It was the age of boudoir art, and a miniature set in the lid of a gold bonbonnière, or hidden artfully in a massive bracelet, was more fashionable than a clumsy life-size image, fit only to hang on the gloomy walls of a provincial château rarely visited by its owner.
1869, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ralph the Bailiff and Other Stories, page 387
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