All 3 Uses of
amour
in
Arrowsmith
- The co-eds murmured that he "looked so romantic," but as this was before the invention of sex and the era of petting-parties, they merely talked about him at a distance, and he did not know that he could have been a hero of amours.†
Chpt 2 *
- He had never dined with a duchess, never received a prize, never been interviewed, never produced anything which the public could understand, nor experienced anything since his schoolboy amours which nice people could regard as romantic.†
Chpt 12
- Now in Martin Arrowsmith there were no decorative heroisms, no genius for amours, no exotic wit, no edifyingly borne misfortunes.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(amour) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
"Amour" is typically seen in old literature or as the French noun for "love" as when "mon amour" means "my love".