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billet doux

[bil-ey-doo, bil-ee-, bee-yey-doo] / ˈbɪl eɪˈdu, ˈbɪl i-, bi yeɪˈdu /
NOUN
epistle
Synonyms
STRONG
card communication dispatch invite kite line memo message missive note postcard scratch tab
WEAK
FYI get-well card love letter poison pen thank-you

Example Sentences

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Mrs. Eberstein bit her lips as she answered, "Billet-doux."

From The End of a Coil by Warner, Susan

Billet-doux, bil-e-dōō′, n. a sweet note: a love-letter.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Billet-doux, from the French, is billets-doux in the plural.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Our Country-men could not forbear laughing when they heard a Lover chanting out a Billet-doux, and even the Superscription of a Letter set to a Tune.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux.

From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander