paramour
Speech parts
1. paramour - Noun
2. paramour - Verb
3. paramour - Adverb
Meaning
A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
Love; gallantry.
Alt. of Paramours
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His real wife, his houri, his paramour was everywhere waiting, genie-like, in a bottle. The hymeneal gouging-off of the bottle-top, the kiss of the brown bitter yeasty flow, the euphoria far beyond the release of detumescence.
Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.
Hurston firmly believed that Ruby McCollum’s testimony sounded the death toll of ' paramour rights ' in the Segregationist South."
Etymology main The word is derived from Late Latin succuba "paramour"; from succub(āre) "to lie under" (sub- "under" + cubāre "to lie in bed"), citation used to describe the supernatural being as well.
A powerful prince and his paramour decide to set- tie a question that's plagued humanity ever since the gates of Eden slammed shut: namely, which gender bears responsibility for the decay of love's purity.
Meanwhile, Katya is struggling to decide whether she can take her relationship with her Bedouin paramour, Nayir, to the next level without sacrificing any chance at furthering her career, already a difficult proposition for a woman in Saudi society.