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 Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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 William H. Maher
The same day that General Anderson wrote Aguinaldo his billet doux about the dictatorship, viz.,
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
