bijou

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Behind this chamber could be seen obscurely an apartment so tiny that an auctioneer would have been justified in terming it "bijou," Furnished simply but practically with a slopstone; also the beginnings of a stairway.

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  1. noun A small, exquisitely wrought trinket.

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  • Also Winter Magic at Black Swan will end at January 9th SLT -: bijou: Moonlight dress will be only available until then, at Black Swan. —  Fashion World of SL
  • He's too big for the bijou car-ette, and is "more of a Hummer guy." —  The Corner
  • At General Anderson's request I took my work to the parlor, and amid a group of wondering ones, many of whom were members of his own family, I showed them how the blind could deftly weave these little trinkets, the fashioning of the "bijou" baskets needing no sight to arrange the colors, with celerity and skill. —  The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl
  • This floating bijou was called the Bucentaure_, was guarded in the arsenal, whence it was removed on the eve of the Ascension. —  Willis the Pilot
  • Behind this chamber could be seen obscurely an apartment so tiny that an auctioneer would have been justified in terming it "bijou," Furnished simply but practically with a slopstone; also the beginnings of a stairway. —  The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
 

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  1. French, from Breton bizou, jeweled ring, from biz, finger.

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  1. F.; of unknown origin.
 

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