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romancer

American  
[roh-mans-er, roh-mans-er] / ˈroʊ mæns ər, roʊˈmæns ər /

noun

romancers plural
  1. a person who romances or pursues someone romantically.

  2. a person who tells exaggerated stories or lies.

  3. a romantic drama film.

  4. a writer of chivalric romances.


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A serial romancer, Mr. Bacharach was married four times — including once to the glamorous actress Angie Dickinson.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2023

By the time the band played “Maps,” its influential 2003 romancer, in the waning summer sunlight, I was a puddle.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

What’s occurred in the 15 months since has catapulted a 19-year-old Hawthorne romancer with a funny Twitter handle to the role of heartthrob musical auteur able to sell out a club tour.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2017

The Fault in Our Stars, the cancer romancer based on John Green’s best-seller, earned $12.6 million, tumbling 51.6% from its first-day gross.

From Time Jun. 8, 2014

Turning, then, from the romancer, we shall trace the records of the Phoca through the denser chapters of the scientific compiler, and the Arctic voyagers.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

Green and her fellow young romancers put some verve into their scrambled affections.

From Seattle Times May 12, 2017

Carter Stanley’s songs of earthly separation, such as “The White Dove” and “The Fields Have Turned Brown,” and randy romancers, such as “How Mountain Girls Can Love,” were the equals of Monroe’s most sublime work.

From The New Yorker Jun. 26, 2016

Sofia Vergara is the latest to enter the conversation: In an interview published in Net-a-Porter‎’s the Edit, the Modern Family star came down on the side of the vocal romancers.

From Slate Feb. 5, 2016

A few chapters later she tells Catherine Moreland, in preparation for dumping James Moreland in favour of Frederick Tilney, "after all that romancers may say, there is no doing without money".

From The Guardian May 18, 2012

Add to it as the romancers chose, attribute nonsense to the Archbishop as they pleased, they always relied, in show at least, on his canonical-439- veracity.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

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