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Meanings of amour in English

Portuguese
intimidade
Catalan
aventura
Spanish
aventura

A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship.

        intimidade
        Usage of amour in English
        1
        My goodness, your former amour certainly had his fingers in many pies.
        Timeless
        2
        But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.
        The Soul of the Far East
        3
        Never yet had he been worsted in an amour by any man.
        A Spirit in Prison
        4
        You heard, I suppose, of his other amour with the Savoyard girl.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
        5
        Even its depictions of illicit, extramarital amour are anchored in the domestic.
        BBC
        6
        Many nobles were killed and their amour is much prized by us.
        Julian
        7
        Heller took Rushdie to task for what she called his magisterial amour propre.
        Reuters
        8
        Her low, artful amour with Richard Bassett had led to its natural results.
        A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
        9
        Such, my dear friend, is the present state of my amour.
        Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de...
        10
        An archer named Blaybourne who was supposed to be your amour.
        The White Queen
        11
        Mr. Bing is to have appealed to the tenor's amour propre.
        The new yorker
        12
        Buttery amour is smeared suggestively all over the brand's vintage advertisements.
        The Irish Times
        13
        He therefore, Heath records, began an amour with a lady of lesser note-Mrs
        Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II
        14
        By the by, here's a shirt-pin for you,-tues joli comme un amour.
        Lucretia — Volume 03
        15
        How difficult it is, you see, to rid one's self of amour propre!
        Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos / T...
        16
        We shall allow Major Denham to relate this African amour in his own words:-
        Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, ...
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        Portuguese
        intimidade
        Amour through the time
        Amour across language varieties
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