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billets-doux

billets-doux is the plural of billet-doux.

Meaning of billet-doux

Noun

billet-doux (plural billets-doux)

  1. A love letter.
    • "O heavenly, heavenly flowers!" exclaimed Miss Sharp, and smelt them delicately, and held them to her bosom, and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration. Perhaps she just looked first into the bouquet, to see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers; but there...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter IV, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 31

Questions about billets-doux

What is billets-doux the plural of?
Billets-doux is the plural of billet-doux.

Words near billets-doux in the dictionary

  1. billetheads
  2. billeting
  3. billetings
  4. billetless
  5. billets
  6. billets-doux
  7. Billett
  8. billetted
  9. billettee
  10. billettees
  11. billetting

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