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amour

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a·mour  (-mr)
n.
A love affair, especially an illicit one.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Old Provençal, from Latin amor, love; see amorous.]

amour French [amur]
n
a love affair, esp a secret or illicit one
[from Old French, from Latin amor love]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.amour - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationshipamour - a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
sexual relationship - a relationship involving sexual intimacy

amour
noun love affair, relationship, affair, romance, intrigue, liaison, affaire de coeur (French) This meaningful amour had gone horribly wrong.
Translations
amour (o.f.) [əˈmʊəʳ] N (liter) → amorío m, aventura f amorosa
amour [æˈmʊər] (literary) n (= love affair) → liaison f
amour
n (dated, liter)Liebschaft f; (= person)Liebe f


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I, for instance, have a great deal of amour propre.
This, however, soon recurred to his memory; and after the first transports of their meeting were over, he found means by degrees to introduce a discourse on the fatal consequences which must attend their amour, if Mr Allworthy, who had strictly forbidden him ever seeing her more, should discover that he still carried on this commerce.
D'Artagnan, after a night passed in an excellent bed, reflected much upon the meaning of Aramis's letter; puzzled himself as to the relation of the Equinox with the affairs of Porthos; and being unable to make anything out unless it concerned some amour of the bishop's, for which it was necessary that the days and nights should be equal, D'Artagnan left Pierrefonds as he had left Melun, as he had left the chateau of the Comte de la Fere.
 
 
 
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