amour
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
amour
- (obsolete) Love, affection.
- Courtship; flirtation.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 75:
- Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all – and yet there's something in that voice of hers….
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 75:
- A love affair.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
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- Jones had mentioned the fact of his amour, and of his being the rival of Blifil, but had cautiously concealed the name of the young lady.
- A lover.
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