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favours

British  
/ ˈfeɪvəz /

plural noun

  1. sexual intimacy, as when consented to by a woman

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Favours are begged and joyfully rewarded, terms of endearment lovingly dropped, affections ecstatically expressed.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012

Favours simple styles, shift dresses in particular, and a mixture of high street and designer, with a bit of European flair.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2010

B Favours close relations of church and state, 52.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various

Give me your hand, And let the subject see, to make them know 15 That outward courtesies would fain proclaim 371 Favours that keep within.

From Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge

As for my own part, I have received so many Courtesies from the Elector, and so many Favours from his Court that I shall for ever acknowledge them.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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