Candy dish
A bonbonniere or bonboniere ( French bonbonnière ) is a container made of crystal glass , porcelain or the like for storing sweets , pralines , confectionery and fondants and was also known colloquially in earlier times . Even more complex cardboard packaging for chocolates is sometimes called that. It is also understood to mean a “well-stocked box of pralines”.
At Greek and Italian weddings, the bomboniera is the traditional gift of the bride and groom to their valued guests. It is packed in ornate paper boxes and mostly contains useful, small items made of porcelain , crystal glass , silver or fabric . The gift is a thank you to the guests. It should remind them of the wedding party and the bride and groom. This is why picture frames , bowls, ashtrays, candlesticks and jars are particularly popular as candy gifts. They find their place in the household of the recipient. In Luxembourg, too, the distribution of candy boxes to relatives and acquaintances was practiced when christening children.
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- ^ Goethe dictionary . Ed. V. of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (up to volume 1, 6th line: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin; up to volume 3, 4th line: Academy of Sciences of the GDR), the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. Stuttgart 1978. Volume 2, column 834 digitized
- ^ Jewelry dictionary [1] , accessed on March 23, 2017
- ↑ The great Duden. Foreign dictionary . Dudenverlag of the Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim 1960, p. 88
- ↑ For Italy: Katja Kirschstein: From the country where not only the lemons ...: My life in Italy , p. 48 digital copy , accessed on March 23, 2017
- ^ Luxembourg dictionary [2] , accessed on March 23, 2017