boniface
/bon-uh-feys, -fis; for 4 also French baw-nee-fas/US // ˈbɒn əˌfeɪs, -fɪs; for 4 also French bɔ niˈfas //UK // (ˈbɒnɪˌfeɪs) //
波尼法斯,博尼法斯,博尼费斯,盂兰盆会
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Saint Wynfrith, a.d. 680?–755?, English monk who became a missionary in Germany.
- : a jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem.
- : any landlord or innkeeper.
- : a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “doer of good.”
Examples
Boniface I., having been for some time concealed in the Catacomb of Felicitas, afterwards elaborately ornamented it.
The writer was present in the riverside town of St Boniface on a certain still evening during the August of 1894.
The landlord of the inn was a true Boniface; he had nothing of the Frenchman but his civility to the ladies.
Monsieur Boniface's establishment was really more of a day nursery than a school.
The enthusiasm displayed by this patriarchal Boniface for his mother was perfectly charming, its novelty being part of its charm.
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