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French letter

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a French letter (informal, old-fashioned)
a thin rubber covering that a man can wear on his penis during sex to stop a woman becoming pregnant or to protect him or his partner against infectious diseases. In those days, French letters were the only form of contraceptive we had.
See also: french, letter
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Pauline Reage" was identified 10 years ago as Dominique Aury, a woman of distinction in French letters.
The big O: erotica in the canon by Freund, Charles Paul / Reason
Indeed, if Sartre's politically engaged intellectual constitutes one tradition in French letters, Baudelaire's darker, more solitary poet works the other.
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Correspondence brings together three essays tracing the history of French letter manuals, books that guided readers in how to write what was deemed a proper letter in different time periods.
Correspondence: Models of Letter-Writing from the Middle Ages to the ... by Dierks, Konstantin / Journal of Social History
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