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
The same day that General Anderson wrote Aguinaldo his billet doux about the dictatorship, viz.,
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by Blount, James H.
How do you know that I am not writing a billet doux to a lady?
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir
It has the cut and fashion of the billet doux of St Germains; and," she added, laughing, "the precise flavour, too, I declare.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
