bodice ripper
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noun Informal.
a modern Gothic novel or historical romance, usually in paperback format, featuring at least one passionate love scene, characteristically one in which the heroine vainly resists submitting to the villain or hero.
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Also called bodice buster.
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How to use bodice ripper in a sentence
This bodice-ripper about Restoration England, banned in fourteen US states, was the bestselling novel in 1940s America.
In a sitting, I raced through the book: a thinking man's bodice-ripper.
The Infidel author, now in hiding for her own book, weighs in on the Mohammad bodice-ripper Jewel of Medina, out today.
British Dictionary definitions for bodice ripper
bodice ripper
noun
informal a romantic novel, usually on a historical theme, that involves some sex and violence
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