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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.
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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