Also bonhommie. [mod.F. bonhomie, formerly bonhommie, f. bonhomme.] Good nature; the quality of being a good fellow.
1803. Mar. Edgeworth, Belinda (1832), I. iii. 48. My lord swallowed the remedy … with a bonhommie which it did me good to behold.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxxix. The bonhommie of his character.
1850. W. Irving, Goldsmith, xiv. 174. That bonhommie which won the hearts of all who knew him.
1878. Morley, Diderot, II. 259. Diderot’s candour, simplicity, happy bonhomie, and sincerity.
