From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette, from bille + -ette, from Latin bulla ("document").
From Middle French billette ("schedule"), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.
From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from Old French billette, from bille, from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile ("tree")).
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