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- used of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.

To exceed in the number of mistresses. [R.] Shak.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

o gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

-- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] Shak. A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. -- To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with Cæsar." Shak. -- To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms wit…

A female paramour; a mistress, concubine, or harlot. -- He*tæ"ric, He*tai"ric (#), a.

A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. [Obs.] Toone.

of Keep. Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.

A paramour; -- in contempt. [Obs.] Shak.

French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.

A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour. [Obs.] he [her husband] is no sooner abroad than she is instantly at home, reveling with her ruffians. Bp. Reynolds.