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Bon  (bn, b), Cape
A peninsula of northeast Tunisia extending into the Mediterranean Sea across from Sicily.
Bon1
n
1. (Non-Christian Religions / Buddhism) Also called Feast (or Festival) of Lanterns an annual festival celebrated by Japanese Buddhists
2. (Non-Christian Religions / Hinduism)
a.  the pre-Buddhist priests of Tibet or one such priest
b.  their religion
[from Japanese bon, originally Urabon, from Sanskrit ullambana hanging upside down]
Bon2
n
(Placename) Cape. a peninsula of NE Tunisia


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Both the parents died before the Restoration, leaving the little girl to the care of her pious grandmother, la vicomtesse, who survived, in a feeble old age, to descant on the former grandeur of her house, and to sigh, in common with so many others, for le bon vieux temps.
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We heard her lock the door and shoot the bolt, so that I could not help laughing, and said to Monsieur: "There's Mademoiselle double-locking herself in,--she must be afraid of the 'Bete du bon Dieu
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Every now and then some one of them would grasp Sancho's right hand in his own saying, "Espanoli y Tudesqui tuto uno: bon compano;" and Sancho would answer, "Bon compano, jur a Di
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