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Bijou

noun

(pl. bijoux)

A small and delicately worked piece.

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"Bijou" Quotes from Famous Books

... Desiree, in haste, "parole d' honneur, I scarcely knew you! I have been waiting for your return from Lyons with the most lively impatience, for, to tell you the truth, I have the greatest bijou for your American ladies that ever came out of a ...

— Autobiography of a Pocket-Hankerchief • James Fenimore Cooper

... thought would be suitable. This was the villa which had formerly belonged to the financier Beaujon, in the Rue Fortunee, now the Rue Balzac. The house was not large, it was what might now be described as a "bijou residence," but though out of repair, it had been decorated with the utmost magnificence by Beaujon, and Balzac's discriminating eye quickly ...

— Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings • Mary F. Sandars

... advance at the Bijou, on the ground floor, for the sake of David's softened muscles, and they reached the town ahead of the regular Frontier Day crowds, allowing themselves plenty of time to get rested and to see ...

— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... and its immediate environment have for centuries formed a delicious verdant framing for a species of French country-house which could not have existed within the fortifications. These luxurious, bijou dwellings, some of them, at least, the caprices of kings, others the property of the new nobility, and still others of mere plebeian kings of finance, are in ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

Words linked to "Bijou" : jewelry, jewellery