What is "paramours"

Usage examples of "paramours".

Do riot expect me to believe that your previous affairs have all ended because you bored your paramours to death.

Perhaps she picked out her paramours for their physical similarity to her husband, hoping for a match.

There was no way to be sure of anything, but he liked Pirojil's theory that Lady Mondegreen had carefully been picking her paramours for the dark hair and grey eyes of the husband who couldn't get her with child - which helped to explain her affairs with Morray and Argent, and if she had been willing to lower herself to commoners, added more additional local candidates than Durine could count.

Arian had awakened once as a child to find one of her mother's paramours sitting on the edge of her bed, gazing down at her in just such a predatory manner.

She hadn't felt like such a dismal failure since she'd accidentally poisoned one of her mother's paramours with a love potion concocted of rotted eggs and wolfsbane.

And as for to say that I love La Beale Isoud paramours, I dare make good that I do, and that she hath my service above all other ladies, and shall have the term of my life.

The white fowl betokeneth a gentlewoman, fair and rich, which loved thee paramours, and hath loved thee long.

And so who that useth paramours shall be unhappy, and all thing is unhappy that is about them.

There was no way to be sure of anything, but he liked Pirojil’s theory that Lady Mondegreen had carefully been picking her paramours for the dark hair and grey eyes of the husband who couldn’t get her with child - which helped to explain her affairs with Morray and Argent, and if she had been willing to lower herself to commoners, added more additional local candidates than Durine could count.