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a billet-doux
(redirected from Doux)

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a billet-doux  (humorous)
a love letter They've been exchanging billets-doux, but I don't know how serious it is.


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In its stead, 18th century thinkers proposed the concept of doux commerce, gentle trade, a concept popularized by Montesquieu in which a peaceful, mutually advantageous exchange in a "civilized consortium of nations" enriched and improved all participants (Howe 2002, p.
Deporvue d'instruction et d'une intelligence mediocre, elle avait un caractere doux jusqu'a la timidite, et elle etait incapable de resister a la menace.
Baeza's simple, elemental work displayed through drawings, lightboxes and models (complete with a handwritten billel doux from Tom Ford) sat especially well in the church's stark interior.
 
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