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What is a bon mot?

What is a bon mot? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A clever saying, phrase or witticism; often, a witty riposte in dialogue.
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How sophisticated to make a bon mot of the president's name.
He is laconically hilarious, hot in a blonde way, he can pass off a piece of dialogue as the wittiest bon mot without breaking a sweat and he also writes.
She dreams in French and occasionally drops a bon mot into conversation, obviously relishing the feel of it in her mouth.
He was particularly good, for example, at rendering that slightly quizzical arch of the eyebrow and half-smile that precedes the bon mot.
I must leave behind me the remembrance of a bon mot, or I shall be forgotten.
Didn't I make you laugh, with my laconic, self-deprecatory wit and easy facility with the well-placed bon mot?

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