billet-doux

billet-doux

A love letter. John was so enamored with the new girl in his class that he wrote a billet-doux and slipped it into her locker after school.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • doux
  • billet
  • enamor
  • enamored of
  • enamored of (someone or something)
  • head over heels
  • head over heels (in love), to be/fall
  • head over heels in love
  • infatuated
  • be infatuated with (someone or something)
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In effect, you can send a wee billet-doux to your loved ones round the globe and it will not only incorporate a few spectacular Scottish images, straight off a tin of biscuits, but will throw in some suitable Burns love poetry.
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