英语词汇bon-bon的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	bon-bon
词源	bon-bon. Bon-bon means “good, good” in French and the name was probably given to candies by children, “originating in the nursery,” according to the O.E.D. The term is first record- ed in Thomas Moore’s satirical poem “The Fudge Family in Paris” (1818): “The land of Cocaigne . . . / Where for hail they have bon-bons, and claret for rain.”
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