billet
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[edit] English
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- Rhymes: -ɪlɪt
[edit] Etymology 1
Middle French billette (“‘schedule’”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“‘document’”), from Mediaeval Latin bulla (“‘document’”).
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billet (plural billets)
[edit] Quotations
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- 17 June 1940: Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ billet. Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.
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to billet (third-person singular simple present billets, present participle billeting or billetting, simple past and past participle billeted or billetted)
- (of a householder etc) to lodge soldiers, usually by order
- (of a soldier) to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house
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to lodge soldiers in a private house
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[edit] Etymology 2
Old French billette, from bille (“‘log, tree trunk’”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, possible of Celtic origin (compare Old Irish oir (“‘tree’”)).
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billet (plural billets)
- metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
- a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
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[edit] Danish
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billet c. (singular definite billetten, plural indefinite billetter)
- ticket (admission to entertainment, pass for transportation)
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Inflection of “billet”
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | billet | billetten | billetter | billetterne |
| genitive | billets | billettens | billetters | billetternes |
[edit] French
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[edit] Noun
billet m