bonmot

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See also: Bonmot and bon mot

English

Noun

bonmot (plural bonmots or bonsmots)

  1. Alternative form of bon mot.
    • 2016, Emo Gotsbachner, “Asserting Interpretive Frames of Political Events: Panel Discussions on Television News”, in Richard Fitzgerald, William Housley, editors, Media, Policy and Interaction, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 56–57:
      Summing up a complex analysis [] we can say that Pilz succeeds in turning Mayr's fierce endeavours of enforcement against himself, and his bonmot about the state of politics during socialist rule becomes widely cited in the next day's press.

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