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par avion

par avion prepositional phrase: by air mail.

Prepositional phrase

  1. By air mail.
    • I’ve written you before but I forgot to send it par avion and it probably won’t get there before Christmas.1946 August 19, John Cheever, “[Letter to Don and Katrina Ettlinger]”, in The Letters of John Cheever, published 1989, →ISBN, page 119
    • He was sent to Vietnam to kill people. Signed up for a stupor-second tour when the loved one repudiated him Par Avion.2006, J. G. Hayes, A Map of the Harbor Islands, →ISBN, page 25

Origin of par avion

Borrowed from French par avion (“by plane”), a phrase often printed or stamped on air mail envelopes.

Questions about par avion

What does par avion mean?
Par avion means by air mail.
What part of speech is par avion?
Par avion is a prepositional phrase.

Words near par avion in the dictionary

  1. Paquettes
  2. Paquibato
  3. Paquin
  4. Paquins
  5. par
  6. par avion
  7. par delictum
  8. par excellence
  9. par for the course
  10. par off
  11. par value

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