paramour

  • 21paramour —    a person with whom you have a regular extramarital sexual relationship*    Originally a suitor, acting through love , and of both sexes, although latterly women have acquired more paramours than men:     Married women go there with their… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 22paramour — noun archaic a lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person. Origin ME: from OFr. par amour by love …

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  • 23paramour — n. 1. Lover (in a bad sense), leman. 2. Concubine, mistress …

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  • 24paramour — noun (C) literary someone who you have a romantic or sexual relationship with, but who you are not married to; lover (2) …

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  • 25paramour — n 1. mistress, fancy woman, inamorata; courtesan, concubine, kept woman, Sl. doxy, odalisque. 2. lover, fancy man, inamorato; gallant, suitor, amorist; infatuate, swain, spark, sparker, wooer, courter, Romeo; ladies man, playboy, Inf. wolf, Sl.… …

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  • 26paramour — par·amour …

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  • 27paramour — par•a•mour [[t]ˈpær əˌmʊər[/t]] n. 1) an illicit lover 2) any lover • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME, from the phrase par amour by or through love < OF …

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  • 28paramour — /ˈpærəmɔ / (say paruhmaw) noun 1. an illicit lover, especially of a married person. 2. any lover. 3. a beloved one. {Middle English, from Old French, originally phrase par amour by love, by way of (sexual) love, from par by (from Latin per) +… …

  • 29paramour —   n. illicit lover; mistress …

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  • 30paramour — In general, a lover; but term is used commonly in connection with a person of either sex in an adulterous alliance …

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