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
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 Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)
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
Besides, I had wit enough to write a billet doux, and hoped, if ever she permitted my absent self to entertain her, she would read with pleasure those breathings of my heart.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre
