BONBON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bonbon mean? 

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

1. a candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONBON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A candy that usually has a center of fondant or fruit or nuts coated in chocolate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

 Context examples 

Jo had saved some bonbons for the little girls, and they soon subsided, after hearing the most thrilling events of the evening.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Here ensued a pause, filled up by the producing and lighting of a cigar; having placed it to his lips and breathed a trail of Havannah incense on the freezing and sunless air, he went on—I liked bonbons too in those days, Miss Eyre, and I was croquant—(overlook the barbarism)—croquant chocolate comfits, and smoking alternately, watching meantime the equipages that rolled along the fashionable streets towards the neighbouring opera-house, when in an elegant close carriage drawn by a beautiful pair of English horses, and distinctly seen in the brilliant city-night, I recognised the 'voiture' I had given Celine.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They had a merry time over the bonbons and mottoes, and were in the midst of a quiet game of Buzz, with two or three other young people who had strayed in, when Hannah appeared.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There was ice cream, actually two dishes of it, pink and white, and cake and fruit and distracting French bonbons and, in the middle of the table, four great bouquets of hot house flowers.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)