amour

[ uh-oorm ]
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noun
  1. a love affair.

  2. an illicit or secret love affair.

Origin of amour

1
1250–1300; Middle English <Middle French, Old French amo(u)r, representing a dial. form or <Old Provençal <Latin amōrem accusative of amor love, equivalent to am(āre) to love + -or-or1; cf. amoretto

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How to use amour in a sentence

  • It is quite what I expected of him,what man of his type could find pardon for a blow to his own amour propre!

    The Sorrows of Satan | Marie Corelli
  • But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.

    The Soul of the Far East | Percival Lowell
  • His very birth is a stolen thing, the darkling fruit of a divine amour in a dusky cavern.

    The Homeric Hymns | Andrew Lang
  • It hurt not only his acquired republican feelings, but what lies far deeper than those, his amour propre.

  • Here was little of the amour propre of Baltimore and Philadelphia.

    The Soul of John Brown | Stephen Graham

British Dictionary definitions for amour

amour

/ French (amur) /


noun
  1. a love affair, esp a secret or illicit one

Origin of amour

1
C13: from Old French, from Latin amor love

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