billet doux
Example Sentences
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Anderson has inscribed a billet-doux to The New Yorker in its mid-20th-century glory years that is, at the same time, an ardent, almost orgiastic paean to the pleasures of print.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021
“Wayward” is a billet-doux to that city, where Spiotta teaches at Syracuse University’s creative writing program.
From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2021
Nine years later, Melville assigned himself a far weightier role, as a journalist, in “Two Men in Manhattan,” his billet-doux to New York, complete with a suitably blowsy score.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 24, 2017
Bodinetz's production, jointly presented with English Touring Theatre, is refreshingly rococo – it's almost a novelty to witness a set of Molière characters corresponding through billet-doux rather than by text message.
From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2013
Yes, upon my word, it is scented up like a real billet-doux!
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
