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  2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    billet-doux lit. "sweet note", love letter<.ref>"Except for the strong possibility that – like former Bishop Roddy Wright of Argyll and the Isles – I would, in fact, be breaking off to pen a billet-doux to a divorcée of the parish, or a furtive birthday card to my secret teenage son," Mark Lawson, "The boy who would be Pope", The Guardian ...

  3. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The sentence pukul pemukul pemukul yang memukul pemukul secara pukul-pukulan dan pukul pemukul dengan pemukul pukul dua agar pemukul terpukul karena dipukul dengan pemukul means "hit the hammer beater that hit the hammer 'riotly' and hit the beater with [a] hammer at 2 o'clock so the beater feels depressed because he was ...

  4. Secretaire en portefeuille - Wikipedia

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    The legs in turn support what looks like an oversize vertically mounted wooden pizza box. This is a cabinet a few inches thick, with barely enough space in it for the raised desktop surface and a few pens and sheets of paper disposed vertically. It is also called a "Billet doux". [1]

  5. French grammar - Wikipedia

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    Finally, yes/no questions may be formed by inverting the verb and the subject. This sentence structure is typically used in formal and written French. These questions may be formed in one of two ways, depending on whether the pronoun is stressed or unstressed. If the pronoun is unstressed, it changes places with the verb that it agrees with.

  6. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written language, where sentences are diagrammed. The model shows the relations between words and the nature of sentence structure and can be used as a tool to help recognize which potential ...

  7. François Billetdoux - Wikipedia

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    His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor. [1]Billetdoux was born in and died in Paris.He was President of the Société des gens de lettres in 1972. [2]

  8. More Pricks Than Kicks - Wikipedia

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    "The Smeraldina's Billet Doux" is a love letter to Belacqua in fractured English by the German-speaking Smeraldina Rima, a character based on Beckett's cousin Peggy Sinclair. Other real-life originals of More Pricks Than Kicks characters include Mary Manning Howe (the Caleken Frica), Ethna MacCarthy (the Alba), and Lucia Joyce (the Syra Cusa).

  9. Madeleine de Scudéry - Wikipedia

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    [clarification needed] An older Madeleine de Scudéry. Mademoiselle de Scudéry is also featured prominently in Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists, a novel published in 1919 by modernist writer Hope Mirrlees. [7] The novel is set in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses. The protagonist, a young woman named Madeleine ...