billet

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      English

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      Pronunciation

      Etymology 1

      From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”).

      Noun

      billet (plural billets)

      1. A short informal letter.
      2. A written order to quarter soldiers.
      Translations
      short informal letter

      Etymology 2

      Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla (“document”).

      Noun

      billet (plural billets)

      1. a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge
        • 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.

      Verb

      billet (third-person singular simple present billets, present participle billeting or billetting, simple past and past participle billeted or billetted)

      1. (transitive, of a householder etc) to lodge soldiers, usually by order
        • Washington Irving
          Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
      2. (intransitive, of a soldier) to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house
      3. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
      Translations
      to lodge soldiers in a private house

      Etymology 3

      Old French billette, from bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“tree”)).

      Noun

      billet (plural billets)

      1. metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
      2. a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
        • Shakespeare
          They shall beat out my brains with billets.
      3. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
      4. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
      5. (saddlery) A strap which enters a buckle.
      6. A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
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      Translations
      a semi-finished length of metal
      a short piece of firewood
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      Danish

      Etymology

      From French billet.

      Noun

      billet c (singular definite billetten, plural indefinite billetter)

      1. ticket (admission to entertainment, pass for transportation)

      Inflection

          Inflection of billet
      common gender Singular Plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative, dative and accusative billet billetten billetter billetterne
      genitive billets billettens billetters billetternes
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      French

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      billet m (plural billets)

      1. ticket
      2. note, banknote

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