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Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot noun: someone or something very beautiful or desirable.

Noun

Brigitte Bardot (plural Brigitte Bardots)

  1. Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
    • I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.1974, The Spectator, volume 232, part 1, page 51
    • […]performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.”1980, Thomas N. Gladwin, Ingo Walter, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, page 268
  2. (Australia, informal) A back-to-back loan.
    • These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.),[…].1992 March 3, Michael Rozenes, “Prosecuting Regulatory Offenders”, in parliamentary debates
    • This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.1995, The Bulletin, numbers 5953-5959, page 77

Examples of Brigitte Bardot in a sentence

  • ...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’1994, J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, page 268:
  • Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.2009, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, quoting Andrew Braithwaite, Toronto, je t'aime!, quoted in The Edible City: Toronto's Food from...

Forms of Brigitte Bardot

pluralBrigitte Bardots

Origin of Brigitte Bardot

Named after French fashion model and actress Brigitte Bardot (1934–2025). Sense 2 inspired by Bardot's popular nickname, BB.

Words that rhyme with Brigitte Bardot

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Questions about Brigitte Bardot

What does Brigitte Bardot mean?
Brigitte Bardot means someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
How do you use Brigitte Bardot in a sentence?
...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’
What part of speech is Brigitte Bardot?
Brigitte Bardot is a noun.
What is the plural of Brigitte Bardot?
The plural of Brigitte Bardot is Brigitte Bardots.

Words near Brigitte Bardot in the dictionary

  1. Brightwells
  2. brightwhite
  3. brightwork
  4. brightworks
  5. Brigid
  6. Brigitte Bardot
  7. Brigitte Bardots
  8. Brigittine
  9. Brigittines
  10. briglow
  11. briglows

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