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amours

  • plural
    of amour.
    amour
    noun
    a love affair.

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Nos amours, the good people of Montreal called their team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The music you hear is contemporary with Irène's life, so Charles Trenet's song "Que reste-e-il de nos amours?" is one he wrote prior to 1942, so it would be contemporary.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023

When asked how long she plans to avoid amours, Milano replied that she didn’t know.

From Washington Post ● May 15, 2019

Their amours are aided by the mischief of friends and kin — Reed Diamond’s Don Pedro is especially fine — who recognize the desire lurking behind the anti-couple’s ostentatious contempt for each other.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2013

It is curious that in Drayton’s poem, “The Nymphadia,” Queen Mab, though a fairy, is remarkable for those things for which her Irish prototype was also remarkable—namely, her chariots, her amours, and her beauty.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell

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