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paramour

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par·a·mour  (pr-mr)
n.
A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship.

[Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by (from Latin per; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + amour, love (from Latin amor, from amre, to love).]

paramour [ˈpærəˌmʊə]
n
1. Now usually derogatory a lover, esp an adulterous woman
2. an archaic word for beloved [2]
[from Old French, literally: through love]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.paramour - a woman's lover
lover - a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage
2.paramour - a woman who cohabits with an important man
kept woman, mistress, fancy woman - an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
odalisque - a woman slave in a harem

paramour
noun (Old-fashioned) lover, mistress, beau, concubine, courtesan, kept woman, fancy man (slang), fancy woman (slang), inamorata, fancy bit (slang), inamorato the president's alleged paramour
Translations
paramour [ˈpærəmʊəʳ] N (liter) → amante mf, querido/a m/f
paramour
n (old)Liebhaber m, → Buhle mf (old); (hum) (= man)Hausfreund m (hum); (= woman)Geliebte f


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Spirits in the shapes of ALEXANDER THE GREAT, of his Paramour, of DARIUS, and of HELEN.
I was now reduced to a much higher degree of distress than before: the necessaries of life began to be numbered among my wants; and what made my case still the more grievous was, that my paramour, of whom I was now grown immoderately fond, shared the same distresses with myself.
Just put your head in at English cottage doors; get a glimpse of Famine crouched torpid on black hearthstones; of Disease lying bare on beds without coverlets, of Infamy wantoning viciously with Ignorance, though indeed Luxury is her favourite paramour, and princely halls are dearer to her than thatched hovels---"
 
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