amoret

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French amorette, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French amourette, diminutive of amour.

Noun

amoret (plural amorets)

  1. (obsolete) An amorous girl or woman; a wanton.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Warton to this entry?)
  2. (obsolete) A petty love affair.
  3. (obsolete) A love knot, love token, or love song.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for amoret”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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