(n.) A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.
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(1) • Doubles from €90, junior suites from €130, Calle Marqués de Larios 2 and Calle Casas de Campos 17, +34 912 17 92 87, room-matehotels.com Dulces Dreams Facebook Twitter Pinterest Right next to the hammam, this bijou hotel, which opened last year, has just eight rooms (one with two double beds), five with their own bathroom.
(2) My standard double was so compact and bijou I couldn’t imagine lounging in it.
(3) Mecanoo joins a throng of architects who have recently used Birmingham's bijou heritage as an excuse to add a bit of bling.
(4) Three Shells Beach, Southend-on-Sea, Essex This is a great bijou beach within walking distance of the town centre.
(5) Skrillex and Four Tet review – unlikely duo channel early-rave spontaneity Read more In a bijou cafe near King’s Cross, Kieran Hebden sits under a meteorite-sized glitter ball, sipping at a ginger beer and looking uncommonly relaxed.
(6) Glass bijou bottles, evacuated container systems, and several types of plastic container showed no significant leakage rate with either blood or aqueous solution when they were tested at room temperature, but a large proportion of the plastic containers leaked after being subjected to -20 degrees.
(7) The Isle of Wight site was very compact and bijou compared to this.
(8) It’s the very definition of “bijou” at just 19 sq m (206 square feet), including the bathroom and entrance hall and despite there being a kitchen area, as the pictures show, any cooking you want to do will end with a ping.
(9) However, the presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, who had also been accused of cheekily getting a rise out of baking terms, seemed to be on best behaviour, heroically resisting any “tart” jokes during discussion of the bijou lemon flans.
(10) 2 Little Victoria Street (028-9020 0158, rhubarb-belfast.co.uk ) Molly's Yard Molly's Yard A converted Victorian stable block in the grounds of College Green House by Queens University, the bijou Molly's pursues a twin-track strategy, with its bistro and dinner menus in various formulations through the week.
(11) Some of the biggest cinema chains in the US are noticeably absent from the list including AMC, Cinemark, Landmark and Regal, with independents such as Michael Moore’s theater, The Bijou in Traverse City, making up the difference.
(n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The post-breakfast gathering of guests, dressed in their hunting finery would meet front of house to witness the Prince of Wales assign the "male gun" position and partner for the day's shooting.
(2) Neighbours, however, were happy to pay tribute to him and recalled the sight of him dressed in his finery heading off for his wedding.
(3) "No one would immediately size you up when you walked in the door, so gay men would drop in without having to be done up in our finery," says Tony, a long-term regular.
(4) The ecclesiastical finery is accessorised with chinos and a pair of black and grey-checked slip-on trainers, worn without socks.
(5) At the beginning the suitors in their straw-boater finery dithered, ecstatic when Sharapova, dragging them into her vortex of suffering, would win a point, or save one, through the sheer force of her will, and then cooed with equal ardour for Bouchard, rising from their seats when she unleashed a terrifying forehand to scorch the lines.
(6) The traditional (and pre-recorded) new year address, in which the president sits behind a desk and talks straight to camera amid the finery of the Élysée Palace, has become a set piece of French politics, intensely scrutinised for its ability to set the nation's mind at ease over the difficulties of the coming year.
(7) The preparations here today are part of the band's album launch extravaganza, two semi-secret shows for 3,000 people, that will be replicated in Los Angeles and Miami, with attendees requested to dress up in their finery, and for which tickets have been swapping hands for up to a rumoured $5,000 (£3,100).