Associations to the word «Lettre»

Wiktionary

LETTRE, noun. Obsolete form of letter.
LETTRE DE CACHET, noun. (historical) A warrant issued by the monarch in ancien régime France, especially one which imprisons someone without trial.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats