PARAMOUR in a Sentence

Learn PARAMOUR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for PARAMOUR, such as:

1. Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.
2. After this, for some days she went round loudly saying that my paramour was no less a person than Lady Chatterley herself.

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 Meanings and Examples of PARAMOUR
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paramour
 n.  a lover; an illicit lover (either male or female)
Classic Sentence:
1  Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
2  After this, for some days she went round loudly saying that my paramour was no less a person than Lady Chatterley herself.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence:
1  Okay, so maybe you don't want to know the nickname that girl from your high school has given her new paramour, just like you don't particularly want to know the color of the daisies he bought her last week.