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Bon

  [bon; Fr. bawn]
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–noun
Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943.
Also called Ras Addar.
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Bon

  [bawn]
–noun
an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars.
Also called Feast of Lanterns.

Origin:
< Japn, orig. Urabon < Chin version of Skt ullambana lit., hanging upside down (a metaphor for the suffering brought on by physical desires)

Bön

  [bohn]
–noun
a shamanistic Tibetan sect, absorbed by the first Buddhist sects of the 7th century and later.
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Bon   (bŏn, bōɴ)   
A peninsula of northeast Tunisia extending into the Mediterranean Sea across from Sicily.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

bon 
from Fr., lit. "good" (adj.), from L. bonus "good." In phrases such as bon apétit (1860), lit. "good appetite;" bonjour (1577) "good day;" bon-ton (1744) "good style;" bon mot (1735), see mot; and bon voyage (1680) "pleasant journey."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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bon language
(From "Bonnie", Ken Thompson's wife) A language designed by Ken Thompson and later revised by him to produce B.
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(1997-02-04)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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