bondieuserie
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
Further reading edit
- “bondieuserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.