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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. 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.