bonne

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bonne
Noun
  • When the woman turns toward the camera, Cecilie shocked: that is not her family’s au pair.
    Isadora Wandermurem, Time, 16 May 2025
  • Widowed with their two children, Jack Corbett Lynch and Sarah Corbett Lynch, the Irish businessman hired an American au pair named Molly Martens in 2008 to help him with childcare.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.
    Nicole Young, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
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“Bonne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bonne. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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