bonne

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Noun
  • Investigators located the clothing of two eighteen-year-old Danish au pairs who’d been raped on Hampstead Heath by two men in 1984.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • Our first au pair immediately fit right into our family.
    Natalie Mills, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 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 21 Aug. 2025.

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