Billing
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Middle English (denoting a written list or catalogue): from Anglo-Norman French bille, probably based on medieval Latin bulla ‘seal, sealed document’ (see also bull2).
wiktionary
Old English surname, named after Billing in Liverpool, from bil(“double-edged sword”).
etymonline
billing (n.1)
1875, "announcement on a bill or poster," verbal noun from bill (v.) "post as a public notice" (see bill (n.1)); hence top billing (1928). Meaning "act of sending out a bill" is recorded from 1908.
billing (n.2)
"a dove-like caressing, love-making," 1580s; see bill (v.2).
