bonne amie

[ baw na-mee ]

noun

, French.

, plural bonnes a·mies [bawn z, a, -, mee].

1. a good female friend.
2. a female sweetheart or lover.

Example Sentences

“Ma bonne amie!” said Gabriel, embracing her.

From Project Gutenberg

“Je suis son bonne amie,” thus she translated the explanation of her unconcealed happiness, “I’m a good friend of his,” nodding at the old man with the full sweetness of her dimples; blushing a little, too, with the pride of addressing him directly in French.

From Project Gutenberg

And then he gives another part of it to his mistress, or bonne amie, because he loves her, and likes to see her finely dressed out; and as for the remainder, why, faith! he spends it among his friends.

From Project Gutenberg

She is a gold and silver polisher, his bonne amie. 

From Project Gutenberg

"The woman was of course poor Dupré's"—and then something in Jacques de Wissant's pallid face made him substitute, for the plain word he meant to have used, a softer, kindlier phrase—"poor Dupré's bonne amie," he said.

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