billet doux

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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

A billet-doux pregnant with greater events never issued from the boudoir of beauty and innocence.

From The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. by Wells, Nathaniel Armstrong