BIJOU (bijoux)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: bijoux   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does bijou mean? 

• BIJOU (noun)
  The noun BIJOU has 1 sense:

1. a small and delicately worked piece

  Familiarity information: BIJOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIJOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small and delicately worked piece

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bijou" is a kind of...):

jewellery; jewelry (an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems))

 Context examples 

It would be pleasing to the saints if one used so fine a rosary as this, instead of wearing it as a vain bijou.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Even the attic, which had been converted into my bedroom, was the most perfect little bijou attic that could possibly be imagined.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)