Bonbonniere : noun Small candy box.
Elegant small room, small apartment tastefully furnished. An elegant little performance hall where you can eat sweets in the front stages and barley sugar in the galleries.
Drain barrel, large barrel armed with irons. Allusion, no doubt, to the fact that by opening it one takes a hold. In the common people it is said of an emptier that he takes more with his nose than with a shovel.
Bonbonnière à filous: omnibus in the slang of thugs, who know better than anyone how easily one can splash around in these public cars.
minibus. Travelers are tight, pick-pocketing is easy; there are thieves who only specialize in stealing morlingues in candy boxes (Thieves' slang)
Gender of the woman.