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bijou

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bi·jou  (bzh)
n. pl. bi·joux (-zh, -zhz)
A small, exquisitely wrought trinket.

[French, from Breton bizou, jeweled ring, from biz, finger.]

bijou [bee-zhoo, -zhooz]
Noun
pl -joux
something small and delicately worked
Adjective
small but tasteful: a bijou residence [French: a jewel]
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Noun1.bijoubijou - a small and delicately worked piece
jewellery, jewelry - an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems)

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I have been waiting for your return from Lyons with the most lively impatience, for, to tell you the truth, I have the greatest bijou for your American ladies that ever came out of a bleaching ground--un mouchoir de poche.
They were all displayed in that chamber of the Castle into which I had been first inducted, and which served, not only as the general sitting-room but as the kitchen too, if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
For, happening to mention one night that hers, which Rawdon had given to her, was of English workmanship, and went ill, on the very next morning there came to her a little bijou marked Leroy, with a chain and cover charmingly set with turquoises, and another signed Brequet, which was covered with pearls, and yet scarcely bigger than a half-crown.
 
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