bonne bouche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bonne bouche (literally “good mouth(ful)”).

Noun

bonne bouche (plural bonnes bouches)

  1. A gourmet titbit.
    • 1807 April 18, Washington Irving, “To Correspondents”, in Salmagundi‎, G. P. Putnam's sons, New York, page 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, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
      Just then the desserts, mere bonnes bouches in foot-wide puddles of pink coulis, were set in front of them.
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