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
Then they all sat down, and, as Paul had foreseen, there the white cocked-hat lay on the dark pew-carpet, hideously distinct, with billet doux in every fold of it!
From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by Anstey, F.
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
It was fitting that Raymond should receive the first billet doux.
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
