bon, bonne

bon, bonne (FR ADJ) good; having qualities that benefit one; well-functioning; performing one's work or role well; well-made, meriting esteem; morally responsive; agreeable in smell; giving pleasure; the one that will do, and no other; expressive of good will; definitive, total; intense, violent. First appears in French in the 10th century spelled buon, from Latin bonus (good, cheerful, sound, valid). (Apollinaire, Banville, Baudelaire, Colette, Debussy, Eluard, Girod, Haraucourt, Jacob…