How To Use Bijou In A Sentence
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Now look, look at the counterpane world, project yourself into it, look beside that bijou signal box.
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For street fashion and younger boutiques - plus antiques and bijoux objets - head for the pedestrianised area around Via dei Fiori Chiari (by the Brera museum) and its northern extension in Via Solferino.
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My cottage is what estate agents used to call 'bijou'.
Kitchen Confidential
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It showed a tall, imposing female standing proud in a splendid gown of state, a coronet on her piled blonde hair, one gloved hand resting on the arm of a throne, the other holding a plumed fan, the sash of a jewelled order over her bare shoulders, and enough bijouterie disposed about her stately person to start a bazaar.
Watershed
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For evidence of good standing in the realm of higher culture, he amasses painting, statuary, and artistic bijoux, as his stocks and bonds certify to his standing in the economic world.
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She paired her bijoux with a simple Calvin Klein sheath and pale pink pumps.
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The bijou property has a kitchen concealed behind a mirrored wall that contains a microwave, sink, hob and fridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some weekends, the once-a-day run from your bijou Jacuzzi out to the campsite restaurant for a spot of beef wellington is all the country air you want.
Glamping v camping: are you too posh to pitch?
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The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
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Sure there are upmarket towns like Peebles and Perth, with bijou cafes and hand-knitted jumper shops, many of which are aimed more at the tourists than the natives.
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And they have an amazing taste in clothes and bijouterie.
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The tree would be dressed in a sea of twinkling white lights - nothing else save for some sort of interesting piece of art work on the top bought from some little bijou art shop in Morocco.
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Fussy clothes were bijoux; smart cars were chi-chi.
Times, Sunday Times
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The swing oval mirror reflected its contents -- ivory brushes, silver hand mirrors, all the costly bijoutry of a refined woman's toilet.
The Hand in the Dark
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My Petit Robert on CD-ROM allows searches by all entry fields by which I think I discovered that "bijou" is from Breton.
Detente - French Word-A-Day
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They started 15 years ago and between them now boast restaurants, hotels, a university campus, a sports stadium, arts centres, new bridges and bijou housing.
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There, lit by the glow of braziers and ‘towers of light’, or candelabras, were Richard, his partner Pam, their snuffling pugs Bijou and Ioda, and a quartet of soignée French guests.
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For street fashion and younger boutiques - plus antiques and bijoux objets - head for the pedestrianised area around Via dei Fiori Chiari (by the Brera museum) and its northern extension in Via Solferino.
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(My Petit Robert on CD-ROM allows searches by all entry fields by which I think I discovered that "bijou" is from Breton.)
Detente - French Word-A-Day
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Two more bijoux stores were packing up in the new year if the sales don't save them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one-of-a-kind bijoux—a sapphire-encrusted starfish brooch and gumball-sized pearl and diamond swan earrings—are available at Ms. Druckenmiller's year-old Upper East Side gallery-cum-boutique, F.D. a mecca for seekers of 20th-century Cartier baubles, vintage Birkin bags and antique Rolexes.
Fresh Picks: Fashion News
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The old Doctor's sleeping apartment, which was the front room on the ground floor, we have converted into a parlor; and, by the aid of cheerful paint and paper, a gladsome carpet, pictures and engravings, new furniture, _bijouterie_, and a daily supply of flowers, it has become one of the prettiest and pleasantest rooms in the whole world.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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Egbert Dormer did not turn out from his hand so much work as some men that I know, but he was overflowing with art up to his ears -- and with tobacco, so that, upon the whole, the bijou was a pleasant rendezvous.
Ayala's Angel
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So you have this strange contrast - small country shops, local country pubs, and then little bijou design shops in the middle of nowhere.
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Egbert Dormer did not turn out from his hand so much work as some men that I know, but he was overflowing with art up to his ears — and with tobacco, so that, upon the whole, the bijou was a pleasant rendezvous.
Ayala's Angel
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A sign in the driveway of the waterside mansion doesn't quite say ‘tradesmen's entrance ’, but it directs visitors to the back door, where a bijou sports car sits in the garage.
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Yes, yes, yes, damn we love this in our bijou pantry laughingly called the Losing Today record room, which suspiciously resembles a coat cupboard.
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The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
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A two-bedroom flat in bijou Holly Walk, not far from Hampstead Heath but not exactly in view of it either, was just fifty quid shy of a million pounds.
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DEMOISELLE: -- Should I ever win hame to my ain countrie, I make mine avow to enshrine in my reliquaire this elegant bijouterie and offering of La belle Rebelle.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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She remembers sneakily gluing stones and flowers to her mother's fine bijoux.
Making It: Aur
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The bijou effect of the original could easily translate into unwitting preciosity, and one appreciates the translator's wariness of plangent excess.
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A two-bedroom flat in bijou Holly Walk, not far from Hampstead Heath but not exactly in view of it either, was just fifty quid shy of a million pounds.
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Seventy years ago an Eton schoolmaster dotingly built his soprano wife a bijou opera-house beside the country pile he inherited on the Sussex Downs at Glyndebourne.
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There is also a scarcity of rock, — though, in the neighborhood of Bijou, I observed a kind of grayish sandstone, exposed to view in the beds of ravines; and, directly opposite Chabonard's camp, the action of the waters had formed a steep wall, some thirty or forty feet high, which disclosed a large bed of sandstone and slate, with earthy limestone.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
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The jewel in the crown of this bijou empire is the Seafood Restaurant, which he opened in the early Seventies.
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The title is certainly a fair description of the 15x15 sq ft bijou premises in Stable Mews, in Leigh.
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Necklaces, ear ornaments, head ornaments, studs and bijous are commonly worn while nose studs and anklets are no longer used.
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His large green bijouterie was open on a vast display of snuffboxes, pictures, and trinkets.
THE DIAMOND
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The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.
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Such alfresco and civic micturition would also help get the old carbon footprint down to a bijou size three.
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Clive wants them, and yearns for a bigger, rambling house in which they can start a family; Elsa wants a bijou double-bachelor apartment in which they can carry on their sleek, babyless lives.
Splice
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Here an ancient citadel coils around an old port and bijou restaurants crowd around a modern marina.
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Inner-city sheds are being sold for a king's ransom, large back gardens are being turned into multi-unit developments and smart operators in posh districts are turning out-houses and garages into bijou dwellings.
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It is no longer possible to stroll up the road to a corner store (all of them now bijou residences) so that you never needed a car, using the tram or ferry on the rare occasions when sorties were made into the city.
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Her escape from the doldrums of her life is the local bijou, where every week a new fantasy plays on the silver screen to whisk her from New Jersey to places she can only dream of.
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* _ "Le pillage a ete porte a son comble -- les militaires au lieu de songer a ce qu'ils avoient a faire, n'ont pense qu'a remplir leurs sacs, et a voir se perpetuer une guerre aussi avantageuse a leur interet -- beaucoup de simples soldats ont acquis cinquante mille francs et plus; on en a vu couverts de bijoux, et faisant dans tous les genres des depenses d'une produgaloite, monstreuse.
A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
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The house was terribly small and cramped, but the agent described it as a bijou residence.
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Diversity Among Designers
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Ça vaut la peine," * the women say, as they sort through boxes of bijoux de fantaisie.
Escapade
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The lane squeezes tight between dry-stone walls, big green views billow away to the north and there are bijou meadows soaked with buttercups as tall as daffodils.
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The bijou property has a kitchen concealed behind a mirrored wall that contains a microwave, sink, hob and fridge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bijoux, cheese and melon is such a good combination and definitely - love.
Spring is Springing with Recipe for Watermelon, Feta, and Arugula Salad (Δροσερή Σαλάτα με Καρπούζι, Ρόκα και Φέτα)
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Rio's Museum of Modern Art (MAM) has opened a major retrospective, "Carmen Miranda Forever" (through Jan. 22), with clips from her Hollywood hits and mounds of eyepopping bijouterie, sequined stage gowns and her patented tutti-frutti turbans.
Icon: We Still Have Bananas
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Bon c decidé j'le fait a la bijouterie, mais ca veut dire:
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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We're in a new golden age of costume bijoux, which come at every price point.
Canada.com
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Across the street, an imaginative assortment of silver bijoux, beads and candles awaits you at Punto Magico.
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And this wasn't some tiny bijou hotel foyer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux.
Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
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This show will display the entire bijouterie of traditional and the contemporary from 22 jewellers,’ said Vishwanathan.
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The Queen immediately hastened to Mon-Bijou; and what de - solation was there visible I never beheld any thing like it: indeed, I think Jerusalem, after its siege and capture, could not have presented such another scene.
Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina : princess royal of Prussia, margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great
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Bijou's Odessy" - an adventure in boating in Mexico
The beaches and coastlines of Mexico
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On the first occasion, Sir Ralph, a fireworks enthusiast, had been invited by Olivier and his house-proud future wife, Vivien Leigh, to celebrate her birthday at their bijoux London home.
John Heilpern
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But a teensy bit dull, if you're a blasé, overstimulated epicurean from the bijoux stews of bohemia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Other Bijou main courses are made up of traditional winter warmers such as saltimbocca, roasted loin of lamb, roasted rabbit and guinea fowl.
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Kinloch House has recently invested in an indoor swimming pool and a new spa, and both take a stay in this bijou little hotel from average country break to a real pampering weekend.
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The columned patio seemed small and intricate, like some bijou box, and behind it the palace's sequence of towers, courtyards and light airy chambers, even brighter and calmer than was possible in so bright and golden a sun.
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When the swinging Sixties brought a revival, the shabby stables found themselves transformed into chic, bijou dwellings for artists, authors and those with general designs on being fabulous.
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When the handsome Hollywood actress Brooke Shields, left, starred as Roxie Hart in the West End musical Chicago over the summer, she picked out a bijou house in Marylebone as her home.
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He talked with the sagamore Anadabijou about their values and beliefs, and his judgments were complex.
Champlain's Dream
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BONUS Euro-Indian fusion restaurant and bijoux four-room spa for sybarites — mountain-biking, kite-flying and fort-hopping for active types.rasaresorts. in; from $345 a night
Rajasthan's New Crown Jewel Hotels
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Well, not all of them… the majority handed over a selection of bijou Edwardian residences which I shall have to go and look at, at some point.
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Rio's Museum of Modern Art (MAM) has opened a major retrospective, "Carmen Miranda Forever" (through Jan. 22), with clips from her Hollywood hits and mounds of eyepopping bijouterie, sequined stage gowns and her patented tutti-frutti turbans.
Icon: We Still Have Bananas
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She paired her bijoux with a simple sheath and pale pink pumps.
Michelle Obama Shows Off Statement Necklace (PHOTOS)
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It houses not only a flat-screen television, DVD player, reclining leather armchair, capacious bookshelves and an L-shaped execu-desk, but also a loo and what an estate agent might call a bijou kitchenette.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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What used to be their homes and even workshops are now largely weekend cottages or bijou conversions for long-distance commuters.
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(1890 – 1904, Vol. 3, p. 278) John Stephen Farmer and W.E. Henley gave “manablins, subs. (old) — broken victuals, also manavilins” and compare it with the French arlequin, – ine and le bijou.
Manavalums
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Never mind that the club will be evicted from their ground at the end of the season, which will be bulldozed into a building site from which bijou homes will arise.
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All bijouterie collections are created according to the last fashion tendencies every month.
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In one "suite" a little white poodle named Bijou is lost in the embrace of Morpheus with "Little Nemo" and his cartoon friends swimming by in an eternal loop on the TV set.
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Forget bijou hats, floating chiffon and strappy sandals - ear-muffs, padded anoraks and sensible shoes are the required dress here.
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The bijou townie character of a lot of the new development is quite out of keeping with the historic character of the town.
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Compact and bijou, Belfast is nonetheless a world-beater.
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And this wasn't some tiny bijou hotel foyer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Likewise, his work on glass varies widely, appearing on domestic articles of all kinds and sizes and in many colours, including, it is suggested, an extensive series of scent bottles and other bijouterie for the luxury trade.
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Now, with the blunderbuss business behind him, he turned his mind to several other unusual occurrences in the past few hours, not the least of which was why he had arrived back at the Bijou Theater humming a Chopin berceuse.
Nutrition
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Clad as usual modestly - a violet woolen top and black sports pants, no bijouterie or charms - she seems a trifle mundane; it's her face that shows it all: deep down she's walking on air.
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But can you realistically make something designed to house just one car into a bijou residence?
Times, Sunday Times
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Bijouterie = Piercing au pistolet = barbare = bobo au noreille gonflées pendant 10 jours
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Je craque sur celui au jasmin, on dirait un bijou :
Foodbeam » Sunday c’est Hermé – Second week: la folie des macarons
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It is now wall to wall marina with one 'bijou' corner' being reserved for the new BBC premises pete
ALL AT SEA..
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Built last winter on an impossibly small cliff-face site, the bijoux building packs a lot into a little space.
Times, Sunday Times
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In decorating his house, a gentleman spends as much money as he can conveniently spare; the elegancies and refinements of modern taste demand something more than mere comfort; yet though his walls are hung with pictures, his drawing-room filled with bijouterie, how is it that the windows of his hall, his library, his staircase, are neglected?
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The bijou, that is now missing one diamond, is estimated to sell for between $US300,000 ($307,000) to $US500,000 ($511,000) at the auction, set for December 15-17.
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But they are not planning to make the bijou residence in Denholme Road, Oxenhope, their home - Mr Beaumont intends to convert it into a studio where he will paint and produce stained glass work.
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The complete tour of a Tokyo apartment - compact and bijou, but clean, light and equipped with modern equipment to make the best of the limited space.
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Forget bijou hats, floating chiffon and strappy sandals - ear-muffs, padded anoraks and sensible shoes are the required dress here.
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It is well preserved, especially in that it has an intact finial which consists of an inverted bowl, a wheel and a bijou on a bronze staff, resembling those of Tibetan style pagodas found in Yuan, China.
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The estate agent described the flat as a bijou residence.