amour

[ uh-moor ]

noun

1. a love affair.
2. an illicit or secret love affair.

amour

/ amur /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of amour¹

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 -or ¹; amoretto

Word History and Origins

Origin of amour¹

C13: from Old French, from Latin amor love

Example Sentences

My three favorite episodes are probably “College,” “Pine Barrens,” and “Amour Fou.”

From The Daily Beast

So, of the nominees, Michael Haneke deserves the award for his understated and masterful direction in Amour.

From The Daily Beast

Shot on location in Greece after Amour, it opened in French theaters last week.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, the most difficult part of the wild success of Amour lies elsewhere.

From The Daily Beast

The other nominees are the underdogs Michael Haneke (Amour) and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild).

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

But impersonality has prevented the Far Oriental from having much amour propre.

From Project Gutenberg

His very birth is a stolen thing, the darkling fruit of a divine amour in a dusky cavern.

From Project Gutenberg

It hurt not only his acquired republican feelings, but what lies far deeper than those, his amour propre.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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