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Bonʹhomieʹ

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Kindness; good nature; free and easy manners; cordial benevolence. (French.)

“I never knew a more prepossessing man. His bonhomie was infectious.”—O. D. Warner: Little Journey, chap. vi.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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