A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.
1 Now he reminded himself, yet again, that an affaire was not marriage.
2 Some affaire d'amour propre; il est très susceptible notre cher Mitia.
3 Oscillation upon the pavement always means an affaire de coeur.
4 He is en affaire regime with the young Lady Essex.
5 It is said that Satan had an affaire d'amour while he was playing Seraph.
6 Have you heard of our Polish affaire de coeur, Carl?
7 His first real affaire de coeur, and he is forty-five!
8 Fancy a Russian lady having an affaire with a secretary!
9 An affaire - an ' episode ' - London ladies now call such things.
10 Hast thou a moment's time for the Leipzig " affaire " ?
11 Even though our affaire is mostly for publicity purposes, we have in fact had sex now and then.
12 Adultery is no phenomenon; it is common enough - une affaire de canapé...
13 She'll have nothing to do with mine, but perhaps you'll be able to offer her better son affaire .
14 A little affaire de coeur, maybe-ah
15 V'la un affaire bien fini!
16 The other kind of women were easy enough to get, and it would be a piquant thing to have one irreproachable affaire .
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