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▪ I. ‖ bon, a.|bɔ̃|
The French word for ‘good’; adopted in ME. from OF., in the form bon, bone, boon, q.v.; also used in certain French phrases.
a. bon-accord |ˈbɔnəˈkɔrd|. Sc. Agreement, good-will, good-fellowship; an expression of good will.
a1670Spalding Troub. Chas. I, I. 214 (Jam.) Articles of Bonaccord to be condescended upon by the magistrates of Aberdeen. Ibid. 216 A peremptory or present answer of bon-accord or mal-accord. Ibid. II. 57 During the time he was in Aberdeen, he got no bon-accord drunken to him. Mod. (Aberdeen is sometimes called ‘the city of Bon-accord’: the word is also frequent in the titles of Scottish charitable and convivial societies.)
b. bon appétit |bɔn apeti|. [Fr. = ‘good appetite’.] A salutation before eating.
1860Mrs. Gaskell Let. Aug. (1966) 626 We wandered about in the Park, being bitten by gnats..& there was no need to wish them ‘Bon Appetit!’ 1965I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun xiii. 170 The circling buzzard had found its offal... Bond wished it ‘bon appétit’. 1984Washington Post 12 Feb. h7/2 Take it as a challenge to redirect your cooking skills by preserving the pleasures of dining out and at the same time protecting your health. Bon appetit!
c. bon-chrétien |bɔ̃kretjɛ̃|. Also 6–7 -chrestien, -crestien. [Fr. = ‘good Christian’.] A name given to one or two kinds of pears.
c1575Arte of Planting 39 Specially the Peare called bon Chrestien. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 191 Winter Bergamot, Winter Bon-crestien. 1673― Rapin's Garden. (1795) 312 In Amiterna's rule the Sabine boors Added Bon-cretiens to their former stores. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. liv, I'll call them bon-christian or good-christian pears. 1859Loudon Encycl. Gardening, Kitchen Pears 60 Spanish bon Chrétien, long known in France, probably from Spain.
d. bon enfant |bɔn ɑ̃fɑ̃|. lit. ‘good child’; an agreeable or jolly companion.
1836H. Greville Leaves fr. Diary (1883) 105 He is very merry and bon enfant, and quickly enters into conversation. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lxiv, Look, Madame Crawley, you were always bon enfant, and I have an interest in you, parole d'honneur. 1883Sat. Rev. 6 Jan. 3/1 He was always and to every one bon enfant.
e. bon gré mal gré adv. phr., willingly or unwillingly. (See bongre.)
1818E. Blaquière tr. Pananti's Narr. Residence in Algiers xii. 233 The mother is constantly in attendance, to enforce their being devoured bon gré malgré. 1818Lady Morgan Fl. Macarthy I. iii. 153 And now, you may depend upon it, bon gré, malgré, we shall be fated to stop at this Lis—something. 1825H. Wilson Mem. I. 172 Your sister Amy..drove me, bongré malgré, to her house, and then insisted on my walking up stairs, and supping with her. 1848Trollope Kellys & O'Kellys II. xi. 249 They were going to drag him into the box bongré malgré. 1870C. M. Yonge Caged Lion x. 177 She must submit, bon gré, mal gré, to become the wife of the Scottish prince.
f. bonjour |bɔ̃ ʒur|. lit. ‘good day’; a form of salutation on meeting in the daytime; hence, a civil greeting.
a1577Gascoigne Fable of Ieronimi in Wks. (1587) 260 Who after theyr Boniure dyd all seeme to lament the sicknesse of Ferdinando. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. i. i. 494 Tomorrow..With horne and Hound, Weele giue your Grace Bon iour. 1595T. P. Goodwine Blanchardine K2, After Sadony had royally presented himselfe to the veiw of all, giuing a princely boniure to the Lordes. 1823Scott Quentin D. iii, The landlord entered,—answered Maitre Pierre's bon jour with a reverence. 1853Thackeray Newcomes I. v. 50 The sea being recommended to him Mrs. Newcome..transferred him to his maternal aunt at Brighton. Then it was bonjour.
g. bon mot |bɔ̃ mo|, pl. |moz|. [Fr. = ‘good saying’.] A clever or witty saying; a witticism, repartee.
1735King in Swift's Lett. (1768) IV. 115 What is he doing with his bons mots? 1781Cowper Truth 307 The Scripture was his jest-book, whence he drew Bon mots to gall the Christian and the Jew. 1824Byron Juan xiii. xcvii, What unexpected woes Await those who have studied their bon mots. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. iv. 151 Come! a bon-mot. 1875Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims vi. 146 The bon-mots that circulate in Society.
h. bon-ton |bɔ̃tɔ̃|. arch. Good style, good breeding; polite or fashionable society; the fashionable world. Also attrib.
1747Chesterfield Let. 1 Dec. in Wks. (1777) III. 173 Leipsig is not the place to give him that bon ton, which I know he wants. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 120 She lives in the bon ton..and is visited by persons of the first fashion. 1807W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 356 To harangue the bon-ton reader. 1865Pall Mall G. 1 Aug. 10/2 There was a word, or rather a phrase, in common use among them a century or so gone by which has fallen into desuetude with us. No one now speaks of bon ton.
i. bon-vivant |bɔ̃vivɑ̃|; fem. bonne vivante |bɔn vivɑ̃t|. One fond of good living; a gourmand.
a1695Halifax Works (1912) 164 The truth is, the habit of such Bons vivants, which is the fashionable word, maketh a suspicion so likely. 1798Mar. & R. L. Edgeworth Pract. Educ. (1822) I. 357 The sympathy of bon vivants is..very lively and sincere towards each other. 1824Byron Juan xv. lxiv, But though a ‘bonne vivante’..Her stomach's not her peccant part. 1862Fraser's Mag. July, 46 He was also a bon-vivant, a diner-out, and a story-teller.
j. bon viveur |bɔ̃ vivœr|. [F. viveur a living person.] A pseudo-French substitute for bon vivant.
1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. xx. 297 A cosy bachelor-villa that had been long inhabited by an old English bon viveur. 1888Athenæum 11 Feb. 171/3 Mr. Rogers has said and eaten as many good things as those excellent bons viveurs.
k. bon voyage |bɔ̃ vwajaʒ|: see boon a. 2. ‘Pleasant journey’: used esp. as an expression of farewell to a traveller.
1680R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus sel. Colloq. iii. 51 After this, a swinging Glass was put about, to the Bon Voyage. 1825H. Wilson Mem. II. 149, I coolly wished him un bon voyage, and..jumped into the carriage. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxii, Bon voyage as they say. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 512/4 The reader will wish her bon voyage, many adventures..and a safe return. 1954W. Stevens Let. 6 Apr. (1967) 824 Good luck and bon voyage!
See bonair, bonally, bon-bon, bonchief, bongrace, bongre, bonhomie, Bonhomme; cf. bonne.
▪ II. bon
obs. f. boun, bound, ready, and boon. |