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)
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 Blount, James H.
We agreed we must put a billet doux there, if another day passed without the sign, though it was dangerously near Pirate Hall.
From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Winton, Julia de
