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    paramour

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++par·a·mour /ˈpærəmʊə $ -mʊr/ noun [countable]  literarySYRELATIONSHIP someone who you have a romantic or sexual relationship with, but who you are not married to 情人，情妇[夫] SYN lover
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    paramour• They bade both the merchant and his paramour adieu.    Origin paramour (1300-1400) Anglo-French par amour “by way of love”
    par·a·mour nounChineseSyllable
    who romantic someone or you Corpus have a


    paramour
    par‧a‧mour /ˈpærəmʊə $ -mʊr/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1300-1400
     Language: Anglo-French
     Origin: par amour 'by way of love'
    literary someone who you have a romantic or sexual relationship with, but who you are not married to
       SYN  lover


    par·amourBrE /ˈpærəmʊə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpærəmʊr/ 🔊 noun (old-fashioned or literary) a person that sb is having a romantic or sexual relationship with 情人；情妇；情夫 SYN lover