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bonbonnière
Feb. 19th, 2021 08:09 ambonbonnière (bon-buh-NYAIR) - n., a small, often fancy dish or box for candies.
Also, a person or store that makes or sells candies, and also by an extension that's still marked as slangy a small exquisite house. After using it for two centuries, the pronunciation still hadn't been nativized, though English speakers don't always do a good approximation to the original French that's closer to bawn-baw-nyer. In French, it comes from bonbon, a candy (a reduplicative of bon, good, explained as baby-talk) + -iere, feminine form of -ier, someone/thing that does -- a person or thing that bonbons.
---L.
Also, a person or store that makes or sells candies, and also by an extension that's still marked as slangy a small exquisite house. After using it for two centuries, the pronunciation still hadn't been nativized, though English speakers don't always do a good approximation to the original French that's closer to bawn-baw-nyer. In French, it comes from bonbon, a candy (a reduplicative of bon, good, explained as baby-talk) + -iere, feminine form of -ier, someone/thing that does -- a person or thing that bonbons.
---L.
