| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.[Websters]
2. A love knot, love token, or love song. (pl.) Love glances or love tricks.[Websters] 3. A petty love affair or amour.[Websters]. | |
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Date "AMORET" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Etymology:Amoret \Am"o*ret\, noun. [Old French expression amorette, French amourette, diminutive of amour.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: AMORET
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| Literature | 1: Romance of the Rose, 892. 2: "For not icladde in silke was he, 3: "He will be in his amorets, and his canzonets, his pastorals, and his madrigals." - Heywood: Love's Mistress. 4: Amoret a love-song, love-knot, love-affair, love personified. A pretty word, which might be reintroduced. 5: Amoret brought up by Venus in the courts of love. She is the type of female loveliness - young, handsome, gay, witty, and good; soft as a rose, sweet as a violet, chaste as a lily, gentle as a dove, loving everybody and by all beloved. She is no Diana to make "gods and men fear her stern frown"; no Minerva to "freeze her foes into congealed stone with rigid looks of chaste austerity"; but a living, breathing virgin, with a warm heart, and beaming eye, and passions strong, and all that man can wish and woman want. She becomes the loving, tender wife of Sir Scudamore. Timias finds her in the arms of Corflambo (sensual passion); combats the monster unsuccessfully, but wounds the lady. - Spencer: Fary Queen, book iii. 6: But all in flouris and flourettes, 7: I-paintid all with amorettes." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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