| 单词 |
amoret |
| 释义 |
† ˈamoret Obs.
Forms: 4–6 amorette, 5–6 amourette, 6 amouret, 6–8 amoret, 9 amourette.
[a. OFr. amorete, -ette, amourete, -ette, dim. of amour love:—L. amōr-em. The Eng. form amoret having become obs., the word has recently been re-adopted from Fr. in sense 5, as amourette.]
1. A sweetheart, an amorous girl; a paramour.
c1400Rom. Rose 4758 Eke as well by amorettes In mourning blacke, as bright burnettes. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour C iv, That thought more to complaire and plese their amourettes..than to plese God. 1590T. Watson Poems (1870) 171 Bestow no wealth on wanton amorets. 1794J. Warton Sappho's Advice (R.) When amorets no more can shine And Stella owns she's not divine.
2. = amoretto.
1598Florio Amoretto, an amoret, a little loue, a wanton, a paramour.
3. A love-knot.
c1400Rom. Rose 892 Nought clad in silk was he, But alle in floures & in flourettes, Painted alle with amorettes. a1423James I King's Q. ii. xxvii, Spangis bright as gold, Forgit of schap like to the amorettis.
4. A love sonnet or song.
1590Lodge Euphues' Gold. Leg. in Halliwell Shaks. VI. 37 Rather passe away the time heere in these woods with wryting amorets. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 71 Where sweete Amorets were chaunted.
5. pl. Looks that inspire love, love-glances; ‘love tricks, dalliances.’ Cotgr. (See amourette.)
c1590Greene Friar Bacon ix. 177 How martial is the figure of his face Yet lovely and beset with amorets. Ibid. xii. 8 Should..Phœbus scape those piercing amorets That Daphne glanced at his deity? 1590― Never too late (1600) 82 Shee alluring him with such wilie amorettes of a curtizan. 1651Life of Sarpi (1676) 90 My amorets and wantonness. |
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