MEANING: noun: A piece of banal religious art, devotional object, ornament, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From French bondieuserie (religious knick-knack), from bon (good) + dieu (god). Earliest documented use: 1941.

BLONDIE USER, I.E. - someone who takes advantage of Dagwood Bumstead's wife, I mean to say

BON-DIEUSE RITE - ritual of Benign-Goddess worship

BOND E.U. SERIES - Ian Fleming also wrote of his debonair agent's adventures on the Continent