In
French, billet doux means "love letter"
or "sweet note" (billet, "note"
+ doux, "sweet," from Latin dulcis).
Plural: billets
doux \bil-ay-DOO(Z)\, Love letters or notes.
- Perhaps
she just looked first into the bouquet,
to see whether there was a billet doux hidden
among the flowers; but there was no letter.
--William
Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
-
Young lovers in Victorian England, forbidden
to express their affection in public and
fearful that strict parents would intercept
their billets doux, sent coded messages
through the personal columns in newspapers.
--Susan Adams,
"I've got a secret,"Forbes, September
20, 1999
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