Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child's nursemaid, especially a French nurse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female servant charged with the care of a young child.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female servant charged with the care of a young child; anurse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When disputes occurred in bonne maman's room, they were between my father and mother, if that can be called a dispute where one is so gay and so imperturbable.
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But this is what the French call bonne guerre, and the most innocent form of deception!
Chapter I. Part IV 1917
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Bon serieux moi dans ma tete de CM2, les champignons c que les gens crado qui en ont mais en fait non la c parce que j'etais trop propre du coup ben ma peau elle etait asséché et donc les "bonne" bacteries elles etaient aussi parti alors j'etais sujet aux infections!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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A 'bonne' coiffed with ribbon shepherded two little girls with pig-tails and frilled drawers.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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A 'bonne' coiffed with ribbon shepherded two little girls with pig-tails and frilled drawers.
The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900
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A 'bonne' coiffed with ribbon shepherded two little girls with pig-tails and frilled drawers.
The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900
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In Norman French it became "bonne," and in the fourteenth century was applied to the round loaf of bread given to a horse; the loaf was called Bayard's bonne (pronounced "bun").
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But as her definite acquirements were few, she had to eke them out by employing her leisure time in needlework; and altogether her position was that of "bonne" or nursery governess, liable to repeated and never-ending calls upon her time.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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“But this is what the French call bonne guerre, and the most innocent form of deception! ...
Crime and Punishment 2002
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J'arrive à la conclusion, qu'il n'y a pas de réalité immorale qui ne soit pas à priori divisée, jetée, et joyeusement entrelacée par les médias ( "médiatisée"), placée de façon attractive et présentée comme "bonne" dans une vision marketing ainsi que turbulente, hyper-active, hyper-productive "Kitsch" ou "Trash".
Museum Blogs 2009
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Female servant. (Luciferous Logolepsy)
May 16, 2008