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billet
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /?b?l?t/
- Rhymes: -?l?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille +? -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- A short informal letter.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- 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.
- 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ?ISBN
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- (figuratively) Berth; position.
- 1897, Pall Mall Magazine
- His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle.
- 1897, Pall Mall Magazine
Verb
billet (third-person singular simple present billets, present participle billeting or billetting, simple past and past participle billeted or billetted)
- (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
- (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from 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)
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 4
Noun
billet (plural billets)
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”)
Anagrams
- LIBlet, Litbel
Danish
Etymology
From French billet.
Noun
billet c (singular definite billetten, plural indefinite billetter)
- ticket (admission to entertainment, pass for transportation)
Inflection
Further reading
- “billet” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From Old French billette, from Latin bulla. See French boulette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi.j?/
Noun
billet m (plural billets)
- ticket
- note, a brief message
- (short for billet de banque) banknote
Derived terms
- distributeur de billets
Related terms
- billet de banque (bank note)
- billet-doux
- billette
- billetterie
- billetiste
Descendants
Further reading
- “billet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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possie
English
Alternative forms
- pozzy
Etymology
From position +? -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation
- /?p?zi/, p?zi
- Rhymes: -?zi
Noun
possie (plural possies)
- (Australia, New Zealand, military slang, Digger slang) A firing position.
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.
- 1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289,
- The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.
- 1998, Business Review Weekly, Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,
- Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).
- 2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, Lonely Planet, page 346,
- It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.
- 1984, Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground, from From the Outer, reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection, page 289,
Anagrams
- poises, posies
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