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Etymology edit

Coined in English from French bonne bouche (agreeable taste, literally good mouth(ful)).

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bonne bouche (plural bonnes bouches)

  1. A gourmet titbit.
    • 1807 April 18, Washington Irving, “To Correspondents”, in Salmagundi[1], G. P. Putnam's sons, New York, pages 183–184:
      It is a melancholy truth that this same New York, though the most charming, pleasant, polished, and praiseworthy city under the sun, and in a word the bonne bouche of the universe, is most shockingly ill-natured and sarcastic, and wickedly given to all manner of backslidings ; for which we are very sorry, indeed.
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty [], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:
      Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.
  2. (euphemistic) The vagina.
    • 1941, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 27:
      I rub her bush with my cheek and my chin, tickle her bonne-bouche with my tongue.

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