billet doux
Example Sentences
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Should the billet doux contain a note of contrition, following an argument?
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2014
A hairdresser rewrites an unsigned billet doux to cheer up her dumped mum.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011
That little billet doux seems to have quite upset the Senorita, though.
From Gold of the Gods by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
Besides, I had wit enough to write a billet doux, and hoped, if ever she permitted my absent self to entertain her, she would read with pleasure those breathings of my heart.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
It has the cut and fashion of the billet doux of St Germains; and," she added, laughing, "the precise flavour, too, I declare.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
