Gallo-Romance

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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Three weeks ago 24-year-old Zoe Sugg published her first novel, Girl Online, a YA romance.
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The girls ran in the same circle (Palmolive was also in the Flowers of Romance) and the group was looking for a guitarist.
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This is where the sporadic and hectic handling of the romance in the movies fails.
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But it was fun to not write people as people, but missiles and machines as people—with feelings, and arguments, and romance.
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A simple errand and promenade,--and yet she felt herself to be steeped in the romance of an adventure!
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
The brilliant imaginative mind has woven it into romance, making its colors brighter still with the sunlight of inspired phantasy.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
The story of the romance of their lives, being widely rumored, greatly enhanced the interest with which they were welcomed.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
A sort of animal romance was stirred within her, and she began to feel strongly excited.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
He was one of the most daring, brave and intrepid officers of the army, and his adventures almost border on romance.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

British Dictionary definitions for Gallo-Romance

Gallo-Romance

Gallo-Roman

noun

the vernacular language or group of dialects, of which few records survive, spoken in France between about 600 ad and 900 ad; the intermediate stage between Vulgar Latin and Old French

adjective

denoting or relating to this language or the period during which it was spoken

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