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BILLET . (I) (Like the Fr. billet, a diminutive of bille, a See also:writing), a small See also:paper or " See also:note," commonly used in the 18th and See also:early 19th centuries as a " billet of invitation." A particular use of the word in this sense is to denote an See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order issued to a soldier entitling him to quarters with a certain See also:person (see See also:BILLETING). From meaning the See also:official order, the word billet came to be loosely used of the quarters thus obtained, giving rise to such colloquial expressions as " a See also:good billet." Hence arises the sense of " billet " as the destination allotted to any-thing, for example in the saying of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III. " every See also:bullet has its billet." Another See also:special sense of the word is that of a voting-paper, found in the 17th See also:century, especially with reference to the See also:Act of Billets passed by the Scottish See also:parliament in 1662.
(2) (From the diminutive billette or billet of the Fr. bille, the See also:trunk of a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree), a piece of See also:wood roughly cylindrical, cut for use as See also:fuel. In See also:medieval See also:England it was used of the See also:club or bludgeon which was the weapon proper to the serf (Du Cange, s. Billus). The name has been transferred to various See also:objects of a similar shape: to ingots of See also:gold, for example, or bars of See also:iron; and in See also:heraldry, to a bearing of rectangular shape. The See also:term is applied in See also:architecture to a See also:form of ornamental moulding much used in See also:Norman and sometimes in Early See also:English See also:work. It bears a resemblance to small billets of wood arranged at See also:regular intervals in a sunk moulding. In See also:French architecture it is found in early work and there, sometimes, forms the decoration of a See also:string-course under the See also:gutter, with two or three rows of billets.
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