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
I could not avoid permitting him to slide his billet doux into my hand as he put on my shawl.
From Leonora by Edgeworth, Maria
Here's Reachum's last billet doux on rifles, quoting them at about 5 per cent, above cost, and yet you expect me to give you an order.
From A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" by Maher, William H.
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
