bijou

• The cottage was tiny -- "bijou," the estate agents would probably have called it -- and there was an ever-present danger of tumbling over the furniture. —  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
• His was a modest enough spread, a mere gold and white bijou residence set in two or three acres of magnificent garden, with fantastically-dressed boys and girls swarming round us like gilded butterflies and ushering us to a charming little pavilion surrounded by a miniature rock and tree garden. —  Flashman and the Dragon
• It was another bijou palace surrounded by dwarf gardens, and belonged to Lee's brother - a genial nonentity who was learning to write, I remember, labouring away at scrolls with a tutor. —  Flashman and the Dragon
• He little dreamed that this very house had once been described as a bijou residence. —  Mr. Prohack
• They missed him, 'Springer admitted. —  Gridlock

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