doux

billet-doux

A love letter. John was so enamored with the new girl in his class that he wrote a billet-doux and slipped it into her locker after school.

(humorous)

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

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Eliseus	-	Biblical Latin
KÖRbl	KUUR-bəl	German
Marciano	-	Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
Teresa	te-RE-sah (Spanish, Polish), te-RE-zah (Italian, German), TE-re-sah (Finnish), tə-REE-sə (English), tə-REE-zə (English)	Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
Ria	REE-ah	German, Dutch
Dagmara	-	Polish