"bon mot" meaning in Anglais

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  "etymology_texts": [
    "(1730) Du français."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bon mots",
      "ipas": [
        "\\ˈbɒn.ˈməʊz\\"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Wiktionnaire:Exemples manquants en anglais",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Remarque intelligente."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Iain Pears, The Immaculate Deception, éditions Collins Crime, 2000, page 3",
          "text": "His little bon mot, for some reason, didn’nt seem quite so urbane at the moment.",
          "translation": "Son petit bon mot, pour une raison quelconque, ne semblait pas si suave sur le moment."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Antoine Lilti, The World of the Salons : Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-century Paris, Oxford University Press, 2015, page 138",
          "text": "The long life of this anecdote shows that a bon mot was a collective creation, and that its success depended on the arbitration of worldly society. What made a response a bon mot or a mot d’esprit? Its success.",
          "translation": "La longue durée de vie de cette anecdote montre qu’un bon mot était une création collective, et que son succès dépendait de l’arbitrage de la société mondaine. Qu’est-ce qui faisait d’une réponse un bon mot ou un mot d’esprit ? Son succès."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mot d’esprit, trait d’esprit ingénieux, souvent humoristique."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "witticism"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bon mot"
}

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    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
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    "(1730) Du français."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bon mots",
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        "\\ˈbɒn.ˈməʊz\\"
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
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      "glosses": [
        "Remarque intelligente."
      ]
    },
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        "Exemples en anglais"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Iain Pears, The Immaculate Deception, éditions Collins Crime, 2000, page 3",
          "text": "His little bon mot, for some reason, didn’nt seem quite so urbane at the moment.",
          "translation": "Son petit bon mot, pour une raison quelconque, ne semblait pas si suave sur le moment."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Antoine Lilti, The World of the Salons : Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-century Paris, Oxford University Press, 2015, page 138",
          "text": "The long life of this anecdote shows that a bon mot was a collective creation, and that its success depended on the arbitration of worldly society. What made a response a bon mot or a mot d’esprit? Its success.",
          "translation": "La longue durée de vie de cette anecdote montre qu’un bon mot était une création collective, et que son succès dépendait de l’arbitrage de la société mondaine. Qu’est-ce qui faisait d’une réponse un bon mot ou un mot d’esprit ? Son succès."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Mot d’esprit, trait d’esprit ingénieux, souvent humoristique."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "bon mot"
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