"bijou" meaning in All languages combined

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        "A jewel."
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        "A piece of jewelry; a trinket."
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        "A small intricate piece of metalwork."
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      "ipa": "/biˈʒuː/",
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bijou problemette"
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      "form": "more bijou",
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    },
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      "form": "most bijou",
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1968, Kenneth Horne, Bona Prods (Round the Horne)",
          "text": "You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 91",
          "text": "We, the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and the Gathered Faithful, do hereby invoke the spirit of our beloved Muffin the Mule, to recognize the bona work of Mr. Derek Jarman in promulgating Universal Joy […] in his bijou masterpiecettes[.]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012 August 5, Paul, “Bijou Polari Appette pre-varda’d”, in Gay History, archived from the original on 2012-11-14",
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          "ref": "1891, A Scandal in Bohemia",
          "text": "I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.",
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          "ref": "1989 [1971], Willetts, H. T., transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of Август 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, page 126",
          "text": "In small towns like Soldau a small area accommodates the town hall, the church, several miniature squares, a monument to somebody or other, perhaps more than one, all sorts of shops, beerhouses, a post office, a bank, and there may be a bijou park behind wrought-iron railings, then the streets and the town end just as abruptly, and you have scarcely passed the last house when you find a highroad lined with trees stretching before you with a neat grid of precisely demarcated fields on either side.",
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        "small and elegant"
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        "(of a residence) small and elegant"
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        "intricate; finely made"
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        ],
        [
          "gems",
          "gems"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/biˈʒu/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-u"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Nl-bijou.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3b/Nl-bijou.ogg/Nl-bijou.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Nl-bijou.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "alt": "hyperforeignism",
      "word": "byou"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bijou"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms borrowed from Sabir",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Occitan",
    "English terms derived from Sabir",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "en:Jewelry"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "bijou"
      },
      "expansion": "French bijou",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French bijou.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bijous",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bijoux",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "bijoux"
      },
      "expansion": "bijou (plural bijous or bijoux)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bijoutry"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A jewel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jewel",
          "jewel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A piece of jewelry; a trinket."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jewelry",
          "jewelry"
        ],
        [
          "trinket",
          "trinket"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A small intricate piece of metalwork."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metalwork",
          "metalwork"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/biˈʒuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bijou"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms borrowed from Sabir",
    "English terms derived from Occitan",
    "English terms derived from Sabir",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "en:Jewelry"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bijou problemette"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pml",
        "3": "bijou"
      },
      "expansion": "Sabir bijou",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "oc",
        "3": "pichon",
        "4": "",
        "5": "small, little"
      },
      "expansion": "Occitan pichon (“small, little”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "bijou",
        "3": "",
        "4": "jewel"
      },
      "expansion": "English bijou (“jewel”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Sabir bijou, ultimately from Occitan pichon (“small, little”), influenced by English bijou (“jewel”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bijou",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bijou",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bijou (comparative more bijou, superlative most bijou)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Polari"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1968, Kenneth Horne, Bona Prods (Round the Horne)",
          "text": "You may have vada'd one of our tiny bijou masterpiecettes, heartface.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Ian Lucas, “The Color of His Eyes: Polari and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence”, in Anna Livia, Kira Hall, editors, Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, page 91",
          "text": "We, the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence and the Gathered Faithful, do hereby invoke the spirit of our beloved Muffin the Mule, to recognize the bona work of Mr. Derek Jarman in promulgating Universal Joy […] in his bijou masterpiecettes[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 August 5, Paul, “Bijou Polari Appette pre-varda’d”, in Gay History, archived from the original on 2012-11-14",
          "text": "Polari, used for decades by gay men, actors, and theatre performers and which famously appeared on primetime radio show Round The Horne, has been brought up-to-date with a bijou iPhone appette.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "small, little (often implying affection)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small"
        ],
        [
          "little",
          "little"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Polari) small, little (often implying affection)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Polari"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, A Scandal in Bohemia",
          "text": "I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1989 [1971], Willetts, H. T., transl., August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of Август 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, page 126",
          "text": "In small towns like Soldau a small area accommodates the town hall, the church, several miniature squares, a monument to somebody or other, perhaps more than one, all sorts of shops, beerhouses, a post office, a bank, and there may be a bijou park behind wrought-iron railings, then the streets and the town end just as abruptly, and you have scarcely passed the last house when you find a highroad lined with trees stretching before you with a neat grid of precisely demarcated fields on either side.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "small and elegant"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "elegant",
          "elegant"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a residence) small and elegant"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a residence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "intricate; finely made"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "intricate",
          "intricate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/biˈʒuː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bijou"
}

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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bijoux de famille"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bg",
            "2": "бижу́",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: бижу́ (bižú)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bulgarian: бижу́ (bižú)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "bijou",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: bijou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: bijou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "bijou",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: bijou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: bijou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Bijou",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Bijou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Bijou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lb",
            "2": "Bijou",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Luxembourgish: Bijou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Luxembourgish: Bijou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nap",
            "2": "bisciú",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Neapolitan: bisciú",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Neapolitan: bisciú"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "br",
        "3": "bizoù",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Breton bizoù",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "br",
        "3": "bizoù"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Breton bizoù",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "bizou",
        "t": "ring"
      },
      "expansion": "bizou (“ring”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "br",
        "2": "biz",
        "t": "finger"
      },
      "expansion": "biz (“finger”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Breton bizoù, bizou (“ring”), from biz (“finger”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bijoux",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "x"
      },
      "expansion": "bijou m (plural bijoux)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bijouterie"
    },
    {
      "word": "bijoutier"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French nouns",
        "French nouns with plural in -oux",
        "French terms borrowed from Breton",
        "French terms derived from Breton",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with homophones",
        "Rhymes:French/u",
        "Rhymes:French/u/2 syllables",
        "fr:Jewelry"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a piece of jewelry"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "jewelry",
          "jewelry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bi.ʒu/"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "bijoux"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-u"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-bijou.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/01/Fr-bijou.ogg/Fr-bijou.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Fr-bijou.ogg",
      "text": "audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bijou"
}