A delicious morsel; a tit-bit (tid-bit).
“Now Iʹll give you a real bonne-bouche. This is a bottle of the famous comet port of 1811.”—Ths Epicure.
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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.