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▪ I. ‖ bien, adv.|bjɛ̃|
The French word for ‘well’; used in certain French phrases:
bien entendu |bjɛ̃nɑ̃tɑ̃dy|. [F. entendu, pa. pple. of entendre to hear, understand.] Of course; that goes without saying.
1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon vii. in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 396/1 Burgundy and velvet are the best, bien entendu. 1863C. Reade Hard Cash I. vi. 190 And I was not penniless, bien entendu. 1904H. O. Sturgis Belchamber x. 136, I could never call her that to her face, bien entendu. 1927B. Malinowski Sex & Repression in Savage Society i. ix. 77 First of all—and that has, bien entendu, nothing to do with matriliny—there is no condemnation of sex.
bien-être |bjɛ̃nɛtr|. [Fr. (16th) c.); être to be.] A state of well-being; comfort.
1849Geo. Eliot Let. 26 Oct. in J. W. Cross Life (1884) I. iv. 189, I never enjoyed a more complete bien être in my life than during the last fortnight. 1873W. James Let. 11 May in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W.J. (1935) I. 344 Your letter..seemed to reveal a great physical bien être. 1883C. M. Yonge Stray Pearls I. x. 112 There was an indefinable bliss and bien-être in their very presence. 1946Wodehouse Joy in Morning i. 3 No inkling of the soup into which I was to be plunged came to mar my perfect bien-être.
bien pensant |bjɛ̃ pɑ̃sɑ̃|, a. [Fr. pensant, pr. pple. of penser to think.] Right-thinking; orthodox, conservative. Also as n.
1923A. Huxley On Margin 113 If you are rich, of good family and bien pensant. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 622/3 A Nationalist rising in Spain, which not only M. Maurras but all the French bien-pensants supported. 1958Listener 7 Aug. 209/2 The pitiful, hasty funeral from which the local bien-pensants remain away. 1962N. Mitford Water Beetle 136 In her world, Catholic, royalist, bien pensant.
▪ II. bien
variant of bein.; obs. f. of buy. |