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Type Words
Synonyms concubine, courtesan, doxy
Type of fancy woman, kept woman, mistress
Has types odalisque
Type Words
Synonyms fancy man
Type of lover

Examples of paramour

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That clandestine tryst between politico and paramour may never be the same again.
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Ivor arranges a fantasy kidnapping of his paramour as a surprise birthday present.
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The marquise is cold yet clingy, as her scene with her first paramour reveals.
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Upon entering Kit's room, The Pardoner angrily finds Kit in bed with her paramour.
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Can we be absolutely sure that Petraeus didn't say things to impress his paramour?
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If you doubt this read his collected letters to his then paramour, prior to Wallace.
From the guardian.co.uk
While your paramour is trying to unbutton your shirt, your mind is on a balance sheet.
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This was not only the horror of a paramour abusing his girlfriend's child.
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And because his paramour couldn't live in Discreatville, she gets the news.
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More examples
  • Fancy man: a woman's lover
  • Concubine: a woman who cohabits with an important man
  • An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship. It can be defined by these characteristics: enduring behavioral interdependence, repeated interactions, emotional attachment, and need fulfillment.
  • An illicit lover, either male or female; Of loving etc.: passionately, out of sexual desire; devotedly. [from 14th c.]
  • Lover, wooer, mistress; esp. one loved illicitly without the rights of husband or wife.
  • This is the person with whom the Defender to divorce proceedings has alleged to have committed adultery. If the divorce proceedings are based on adultery the Paramour must be named and the divorce proceedings served on them.
  • (My Love Paramour): n. [Middle English/Old French - par amour, by way of love] A lover, especially on in an 0adulterous relationship.
  • An illicit lover or mistress. This word is usually used figuratively to show the relationship between the institutions of false religion and politics. ...
  • A love that is attached to someone else eg. concubine.