bonne

[ bawn ]

/ bɔn /

a maid-servant.

a child's nurse.

Origin of bonne

literally, good (feminine)

à la bonne heure

[ a la baw nœr ]

/ a la bɔ ˈnœr /

French.

at the right moment.

well and good; just right; excellent.

literally, at the good hour

"I'm the mayor of La Bonne Soupe on Foursquare," she said proudly.

Google's Mobile Matchmaker |David Kirkpatrick |January 7, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Are there not—the bonne bouche comes at last—priests and deacons?

Guy Livingstone; |George A. Lawrence
But bonne maman was not at all satisfied with this evasion and saw that the prayer was taught to me.

A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago |Anne Douglas Sedgwick
It was the one bonne bouche of all the good things he would eventually learn to eat—the spring beauty.

The Grizzly King |James Oliver Curwood

With emotion Napoleon replied simply: "Bonne femme: bonne Josephine elle m'aimeit vraiment."

Royal Palaces and Parks of France |Milburg Francisco Mansfield
She bonne scholare an' tak prize when leetle gal at seminare.'

In the Van; or, The Builders |John Price-Brown

bonne

/ French (bɔn) /

a housemaid or female servant

C18: from feminine of bon good