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bon mot
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synonyms: epigram, mot, aphorism, apothegm, maxim, jeu dʼesprit, dictum ???
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Definition:a clever remark or comment
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you know Vassily? Why, that fat one; he’s famous for his bon mots.
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But perhaps it was best that here, at least, there was some kind of pause between thought and spoken word as I searched for just the right bon mot.
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p.152 (2013)
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His bon mots are in every witling's mouth; but many of them have a rank flavour, which one would be apt to think was derived from a natural grossness of idea.
Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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A virgin audience like Colonel Sheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apothegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.319 (1961)
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"We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven?— Is he in hell?
That demmed, elusive Pimpernel"
Sir Percy's bon mot had gone the round of the brilliant reception-rooms.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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it won’t be your skirmishing at Durrenstein, or gunpowder at all, that will decide the matter, but those who devised it,” said Bilibin quoting one of his own mots,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 02 (Book Two)
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