单词 | billet-doux |
释义 | ‖ billet-doux|bijɛdu| [Fr.; = sweet note.] A love-letter. (Now usually jocular.)
1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode ii. i. 261 He sings and dances en François, and writes the billets doux to a miracle. a1688Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.) Ep. Julian Wks. 1705 II. 94 Strephon's Billet douxe's have made them sport. 1712Pope Rape Lock i. 138 Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair iv, To see whether there was a billet-doux hidden among the flowers. |

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