OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 19680

billet

/ˈbɪlɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acuartelar
To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day s…