English

Noun

Brigitte Bardot ‎(plural Brigitte Bardots)

1. Someone or something very beautiful or desirable.
   • 1974, The Spectator, Volume 232, Part 1, page 51,

     I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity.

   • 1980, Thomas N. Gladwin, Ingo Walter, Multinationals Under Fire: Lessons in the Management of Conflict, page 268,

     […] performance swelled French national pride and excited the fancy of stock market speculators — it became “the Brigitte Bardot of French industry.”

   • 1994, J. I. Packer, A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, page 268:

     ...who, in discussing the Puritan position, declared: ‘I want a Brigitte Bardot who can lead a Bible class’

   • 2009, Andrew Braithwaite, Toronto, je t'aime!, Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox, The Edible City: Toronto's Food from Farm to Fork, unnumbered page,

     Paris is the greatest food city in the world – the Rolls Royce, the Château d'Yquem, the Brigitte Bardot of gastronomic capitals.

2. (Australia, finance, informal) A back-to-back loan.
   • 1992 March 3, Michael Rozenes, speech, Prosecuting Regulatory Offenders,

     These practices included back to back loans (in some quarters colloquially termed Brigitte Bardot′s from the initials B.B.), […] .

   • 1995, The Bulletin, Issues 5953-5959, page 77,

     This is a back-to-back loan, sometimes called BBs or Brigitte Bardots.