Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A letter intended for a person residing within the delivery of the post-office where it is posted.
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Examples
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A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.
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One morning Paul found a drop-letter in the mail which greeted him daily.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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After asking a few friends to sign an article of agreement to pay one dollar a year during five years for the orphan asylum, and mailing a couple of letters to Levi Coffin and Rev.E. M. Cravath, of Cincinnati, I took from the office a drop-letter from M.. Burton Kent, County Superintendent of the Poor, containing the following notice:
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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A drop-letter came to me asking me to lecture here for a church debt.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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After asking a few friends to sign an article of agreement to pay one dollar a year during five years for the orphan asylum, and mailing a couple of letters to Levi Coffin and Rev.E. M. Cravath, of Cincinnati, I took from the office a drop-letter from M.. Burton Kent, County Superintendent of the Poor, containing the following notice:
A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881
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Each graf started with a large drop-letter capital.
CJR 2009
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Each graf started with a large drop-letter capital.
Inside Higher Ed 2009
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