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Definition

a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship

"Amour" is typically seen in old literature or as the French noun for "love" as when "mon amour" means "my love".

indulged in various amours

Il existe un embaumement d'amour.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
If you and Nicole married won't that be 'l'amour de famille'?
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
She imagined that he wished her gone that she might not witness his amours with another girl.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
So he entered, and anon there met with him two brethren, the one hight Sir Plaine de Force, and the other hight Sir Plaine de Amours.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I
So I answered, Elle symbolise l'amour ("It symbolizes love").
John Green -- Looking for Alaska
'You see how it is,' he said to me, 'where there is no chivalry, there is no amour-propre.'
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
"Les domes, sur l'azur des ondes Suivant la phrase au pur contour, S'enflent comme des gorges rondes Que souleve un soupir d'amour.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
We saw young Leviathan amours in the deep.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
And how inane was the life he led, lounging about bars and drinking in music halls, wandering from one light amour to another!
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
It is against my vow to love any maiden, otherwise than 'par amours', as I will love thee.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
It annoyed him vehemently that people outside his tribe and unaffected by his casual amours should pursue him for the life.
Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
Well, it's hardly a mystery, mon amour, Maman had said.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Jones had mentioned the fact of his amour, and of his being the rival of Blifil, but had cautiously concealed the name of the young lady.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones
So he entered, and anon there met with him two brethren, the one hight Sir Plaine de Force, and the other hight Sir Plaine de Amours.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
Ten to one that he makes the wench pay for the oath and the gendarme for the amour!
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Instead of attacking them, you'd better read Michelet's book, De l'amour.
Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
Her current amour, Billy Nolan, was looking through the latest issue of Popular Mechanics at the magazine rack.
Stephen King -- Carrie
She was dead, and the note by her white rigid hand said it all: Maintenant nous deux sommes libres, mon amour.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
An amour for him; passion for her.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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