The noun BILLET DOUX has 1 sense: 1  1. a personal letter to a loved one expressing affection. 2  Meaning: 3  A personal letter to a loved one expressing affection. 4  Classified under: 5  Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents. 6  Synonyms: 7  billet doux; love letter. 8  Hypernyms (billet doux is a kind of...):
The main islands are (from largest to smallest) Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro. The archipelago also includes a number of islets: La Graciosa, Alegranza, Isla de Lobos, Montana MontaÃ±a, Clara roque Del oeste And roque Del. estehe Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where volcanic eruptions have been recorded during the Modern Era, with some volcanoes still active (El Hierro, 2011). Volcanic islands such as the those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and landslides.
Canary Current. The Canary Current is a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre. This eastern boundary current branches south from the North Atlantic Current and flows southwest about as far as Senegal where it turns west and later joins the Atlantic North Equatorial Current. The current is named after the Canary Islands. The archipelago partially blocks the flow of the Canary Current (Gyory, 2007). This wide and slow moving current is thought to have been exploited in the early Phoenician navigation and settlement along the coast of western Morocco.