par avion
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French par avion (“by plane”), a phrase often printed or stamped on air mail envelopes.
Prepositional phrase
[edit]par avion
- By air mail.
- 1946 August 19, John Cheever, “[Letter to Don and Katrina Ettlinger]”, in The Letters of John Cheever, published 1989, →ISBN, page 119:
- I’ve written you before but I forgot to send it par avion and it probably won’t get there before Christmas.
- 2021, Angela Mi Young Hur, Foklorn[1], →ISBN:
- I have vague memories of her writing on blue airmail stationery—delicate sheets that tuck into themselves—ready to be sealed, stamped, and sent par avion.