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Definition of billet-doux in English: billet-douxnounPlural billets-doux ˌbɪleɪˈduːˌbɪleɪˈdu dated, humorous A love letter. she was a constant recipient of billets-doux from the boys of the neighbouring school Example sentencesExamples - If I haven't burnt this little billet-doux to light the gas ring for my morning sausages.
- So in the meantime I'll have to make do with this little billet-doux which has come fluttering through my letterbox…
- And better still, the back of the menu was a billet-doux to gastronomic accountability.
- And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads.
- So I thought it was time to share my riches; hence the following billet-doux on New Zealand skifields.
- As she seems easily fooled, why not send yourself sheaves of valentines and other billets-doux?
- In the last four years alone, no fewer than three auctions have featured billets-doux and other letters written by the Duke of Windsor when he held the titles Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII.
- Of course, as well as penning billets-doux to gifted actors, he can also be marvellously tactless about those who don't impress him.
- ‘This service is very much loved by those engrossed in clandestine relationships of a carnal nature for passing surreptitious billets-doux,’ he said.
- Gone was the woozy romanticism I had wanted to read into his first billet-doux.
- A traffic ticket is not a billet-doux, nor is it a token of affection someone named ‘Don Juan’ delivers.
- From the sublime to the royal billet-doux, the same sale has a collection of 314 unpublished love letters comprising over 2,900 pages from the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) to his mistress, Mrs Freda Dudley Ward.
- Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux.
- The rough trajectory of the plot begins with Kitty's discovery of a billet-doux, from her husband to Tula.
- Not only that, e-mail is also treacherous, offering the illusion of a confidential or subversive chat when every electronic billet-doux belongs to the employer and can be produced in an industrial tribunal.
Origin Late 17th century: French, literally 'sweet note'. Rhymes accrue, adieu, ado, anew, Anjou, aperçu, askew, ballyhoo, bamboo, bedew, bestrew, blew, blue, boo, boohoo, brew, buckaroo, canoe, chew, clew, clou, clue, cock-a-doodle-doo, cockatoo, construe, coo, Corfu, coup, crew, Crewe, cru, cue, déjà vu, derring-do, dew, didgeridoo, do, drew, due, endue, ensue, eschew, feu, few, flew, flu, flue, foreknew, glue, gnu, goo, grew, halloo, hereto, hew, Hindu, hitherto, how-do-you-do, hue, Hugh, hullabaloo, imbrue, imbue, jackaroo, Jew, kangaroo, Karroo, Kathmandu, kazoo, Kiangsu, knew, Kru, K2, kung fu, Lahu, Lanzhou, Lao-tzu, lasso, lieu, loo, Lou, Manchu, mangetout, mew, misconstrue, miscue, moo, moue, mu, nardoo, new, non-U, nu, ooh, outdo, outflew, outgrew, peekaboo, Peru, pew, plew, Poitou, pooh, pooh-pooh, potoroo, pursue, queue, revue, roo, roux, rue, Selous, set-to, shampoo, shih-tzu, shoe, shoo, shrew, Sioux, skean dhu, skew, skidoo, slew, smew, snafu, sou, spew, sprue, stew, strew, subdue, sue, switcheroo, taboo, tattoo, thereto, thew, threw, thro, through, thru, tickety-boo, Timbuktu, tiramisu, to, to-do, too, toodle-oo, true, true-blue, tu-whit tu-whoo, two, vendue, view, vindaloo, virtu, wahoo, wallaroo, Waterloo, well-to-do, whereto, whew, who, withdrew, woo, Wu, yew, you, zoo Definition of billet-doux in US English: billet-douxnounˌbilāˈdo͞oˌbɪleɪˈdu dated, humorous A love letter. she was a constant recipient of billets-doux from the boys of the neighboring school Example sentencesExamples - And better still, the back of the menu was a billet-doux to gastronomic accountability.
- So I thought it was time to share my riches; hence the following billet-doux on New Zealand skifields.
- A traffic ticket is not a billet-doux, nor is it a token of affection someone named ‘Don Juan’ delivers.
- Gone was the woozy romanticism I had wanted to read into his first billet-doux.
- ‘This service is very much loved by those engrossed in clandestine relationships of a carnal nature for passing surreptitious billets-doux,’ he said.
- So in the meantime I'll have to make do with this little billet-doux which has come fluttering through my letterbox…
- And so he returns to the paparazzi and the predictable billets-doux slipped under the door by self-justifying journalists who have hypocrisy tattooed on their foreheads.
- In the last four years alone, no fewer than three auctions have featured billets-doux and other letters written by the Duke of Windsor when he held the titles Prince of Wales and King Edward VIII.
- From the sublime to the royal billet-doux, the same sale has a collection of 314 unpublished love letters comprising over 2,900 pages from the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) to his mistress, Mrs Freda Dudley Ward.
- Contrary to what Bridget Jones's Diary suggests, e-mail has proved an equally unreliable medium for billets-doux.
- Of course, as well as penning billets-doux to gifted actors, he can also be marvellously tactless about those who don't impress him.
- Not only that, e-mail is also treacherous, offering the illusion of a confidential or subversive chat when every electronic billet-doux belongs to the employer and can be produced in an industrial tribunal.
- As she seems easily fooled, why not send yourself sheaves of valentines and other billets-doux?
- The rough trajectory of the plot begins with Kitty's discovery of a billet-doux, from her husband to Tula.
- If I haven't burnt this little billet-doux to light the gas ring for my morning sausages.
Origin Late 17th century: French, literally ‘sweet note’. |