a love-song, love-knot, love, affair, love personified. A pretty word, which might be reintroduced.
“He will be in his amorets, and his canzonets, his pastorals, and his madrigals.”—Heywood: Love’s Mistress.
“For not icladde in silke was he,
But all in flouris and flourettes,
I-paintid all with amorettes.”
Romance of the Rose, 892.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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