[Fr.; = good-good; a name originating in the nursery; cf. goody.]
1. A lozenge or other confection made of sugar.
1818. Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, v. The land of Cocaigne … Where for hail they have bon-bons, and claret for rain.
1831. Disraeli, Yng. Duke, 3. Lady Fitz-Pompey called twice a week … with a supply of pine-apples or bon-bons.
† 2. A dainty, a delicacy. Obs.
1821. Cook’s Oracle (ed. 3), 330. [In a] Catalogue of Persian ‘Bons Bons,’ there is a list of 28 differently flavoured Mustards.
1842. ‘Meg Dods,’ Cook & Housew. Man., II. v. 125, note. They [onions] used to form the favourable bon-bons of the Highlander.
