bonbonnière
See also: bonbonniere
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ̃.bɔ.njɛʁ/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: bonbonnières
- Hyphenation: bon‧bo‧nnière
Noun
bonbonnière f (plural bonbonnières)
- candy box
- (figuratively, informal) small, exquisite house
Descendants
- → English: bonbonniere
- Friulian: bomboniere
- → Georgian: ბონბონიერი (bonbonieri)
- → Italian: bomboniera
- → Russian: бонбонье́рка (bonbonʹjérka)
- → Sicilian: bummunera
Further reading
- “bonbonnière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.