billets

Pg. 161, "billets deux" changed to "billets doux", seems more appropriate in context. (six or eight _billets doux_.)

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

The few cases occurred in billets behind the lines, and there, as at Salisbury Plain, it was evidently a matter not of house or hutment infection, but of conveyance through the intermediation of drinking vessels in refreshment booths and estaminets.

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

Another seventeen days was spent in billets at Boulogne.

War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918

Although "Valentines," as generally understood, that is to say billets sent by means of the post, are as numerously employed here as in other places, yet the _custom_ consists not in the transmission of a missive overflowing with hearts and darts, or poetical posies, but in something far more substantial, elegant and costly -- to wit, a goodly present of value unrestricted in use or expense.

Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

On the days on which this paper (which is called billets de confiance) is issued, the Hotel de Ville is besieged by

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

On the days on which this paper (which is called billets de confiance) is issued, the Hotel de Ville is besieged by

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part I. 1792 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

Officers had to be driven upon rounds of two hundred kilometres a day – interviewing mayors of ruined villages, listening to claims, assessing damage caused by the French troops in billets.

The Happy Foreigner 1920

Many players between the ages 16 of 20 live far away from home with local host families, known as billets.

The Seattle Times 2011

It was two-story and it was sitting up off the ground on large concrete block foundation posts set every five feet or so under the "billets," as the first sergeant we were introduced to said after we were in our billets--and I was told I was in Battery B of C Company, which had four batteries assigned to it.

Kill or Be Killed The Daily Growler 2006

Suppers were waiting for the hungry soldiers in five hundred homes and the "billets" they found prepared for them were of a variety they had not seen in all of their foreign travels.

History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division 1920