bondieuserie
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French bondieuserie.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bondieuserie (plural bondieuseries)
- Any devotional ornament or church object, especially one having little artistic value; a religious knick-knack.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 160:
- It is about eleven hundred years old, and though it is defaced by hideous bondieuseries of the modern Roman Catholic Church, it remains infinitely touching […].
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bondieuserie f (plural bondieuseries)
- bondieuserie, religious knick-knack
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bondieuserie
Further reading
[edit]- “bondieuserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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