Billets-doux from the great Louis to the Montespan, perhaps?" "No, unfortunately they were of a much more recent date.

Billet-doux, from the French, is billets-doux in the plural.

If I can now but get admittance, I shall not only deliver the young Ladies their Letters from their Lovers, but get some opportunity, in this Disguise, to slip this Billet-Doux into Mopsophil's Hand, and bob my Comrade Scaramouch.

Her billets-doux like the lyrics in a play represent moments of supreme emotion.

Ovid informs us that Taurosthenus, by a pigeon stained with purple, gave notice to his father of his victory at the Olympic games, sending it to him at Ægina; and Anacreon tells us, that he conveyed a billet-doux to his beautiful Bathyllid, by a dove.

All this while, Valentine's Day kept courting pretty May, who sate next him, slipping amorous billets-doux under the table, till the Dog Days (who are naturally of a warm constitution) began to be jealous, and to bark and rage exceedingly.

Thar's a handful of russets in the orchard yit, that's calc'latin' ter spend Christmas up close ter heaven; butSay, Blossy," he added more loudly, since she did not raise her head, "yew seen anythin' o' that air picker?" Blossy glanced up from her ragged-edged crackly billet-doux with a start, and dropped the envelop to the floor.