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Recent Examples of Synonyms for billets-doux
letters
Noun
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Interest in the author’s life can curdle into obsession, as in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, in which the narrator embraces any deception necessary to acquire the letters of a dead poet.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026 -
Tap the letters or the up and down carat on the display line.—
Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
4 June 2026
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“Billets-doux.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billets-doux. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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