Definition of Love letter

1. Noun. A personal letter to a loved one expressing affection.

Exact synonyms: Billet Doux
Generic synonyms: Personal Letter

Definition of Love letter

1. Noun. A letter written about the author's love for the intended reader. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Love Letter

love glove
love gloves
love goggles
love handle
love handles
love hold
love hotels
love in a mist
love interest
love interests
love is blind
love knot
love letter
love letters
love line
love lyric
love match
love muscles
love potion
love rat
love seat
love seats
love slaves

Literary usage of Love letter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... beloved (archaic or formal), lief (archaic). love letter, billet-doux (French). love mailing, courtship (usually referring to honorable love making), ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"... the Squire sat down, by locking up the spirits; and that Heronry. whose departure he further facilitated love-letter, posted away to the CHAPTER XX. ..."

3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"An harvest of the best, what needs he more? In's other hand a glass ev'n almost run, Thus writ about: "This out, then am I done." A LOVE-LETTER TO HER ..."

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