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billet

In Romanesque architecture, an ornamental moulding formed of short cylindrical blocks, suggesting miniature wooden ‘billets’, and set in a concave moulding.



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Prince John had proceeded thus far, and was about to give the signal for retiring from the lists, when a small billet was put into his hand.
Be kind enough to address it to John Sedley, Esquire, and to seal this billet which I have written to his lady.
At length, when I was within a few days' journey of the viceroy, I received a billet in more plain and express terms than anything I had been told yet, charging me with extreme imprudence in putting myself into the hands of those men who had undoubtedly sworn to cut me off.
 
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