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
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 Julia de Winton
That little billet doux seems to have quite upset the Senorita, though.
From Gold of the Gods by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Señor de Loyarte, like those little, chubby-winged cherubs on sacristy ceilings, shakes his arrowlet at me and lets fling a billet doux.
From Youth and Egolatry by Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
