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Amoret

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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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Aminadab
Amine
Aminte
Amiral
Amlet (Richard)
Ammon
Ammonian Horn (The)
Ammonites
Amon’s Son (in Orlando Furioso)
Amoret
Amoret
Amorous (The)
Amour propre
Amparo de Pobres
Ampersand
Amphialus
Amphictyonic Council
Amphigons
Amphigouri
Amphion
Amphitrite (either 3 or 4 syl.)