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Billet-doux

Billet-doux \Bil`let-doux"\ (b[i^]l`l[asl]*d[=oo]"), n.; pl. Billets-doux (b[i^]l`l[asl]*d[=oo]z"). [F. billet note + doux sweet, L. dulcis.] A love letter or note.

A lover chanting out a billet-doux.
--Spectator.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
billet-doux

also billet doux, 1670s, "love letter," French, literally "sweet note," from billet "document, note" (14c., diminutive of bille; see bill (n.1)) + doux "sweet," from Latin dulcis (see dulcet).

Wiktionary
billet-doux

n. A love letter.

Usage examples of "billet-doux".

Phoebe pictured Maeve, sitting in regal splendor amid her pillows and her billet-doux, opining on the imbecility of love.

When Obie Yount received his first scented billet-doux, and had Florian translate it, and learned that his admirer was a widow woman, he recoiled.

Wouldn't your hands shake if you'd just got a billet-doux from a love-lorn suitor in the bar?

Well, didn't Napoleon write many a billet-doux to his inamorata from the bloody battlefield, with the dead still strewn outside his candle-lit tent?