billet doux

Example Sentences

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“Wayward” is a billet-doux to that city, where Spiotta teaches at Syracuse University’s creative writing program.

From Washington Post

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

Homicide: Life on the Street was a classy, multi-layered procedural, The Wire was widely regarded as a masterpiece and Treme has won rave reviews for its post-Katrina New Orleans billet-doux.

From The Guardian

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

Some words are indeed doubtful, being spelled differently by different authors of equal authority; but those are few; and in those cases every man has his option, because he may plead his authority either way; but where there is but one right way, as in the two words above mentioned, it is unpardonable and ridiculous for a gentleman to miss it; even a woman of tolerable education would despise and laugh at a lover, who sent her an ill-spelled billet-doux.

From Project Gutenberg