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‖ affaire|əˈfɛə(r)|
[Fr.]
= affair 3; esp. (often in form affaire de (or du) cœur, ‘an affair of the heart’, a love affair, an amour, an amatory episode.
1809Q. Rev. II. 349 The connection with Egeria resolves itself, of course, into an affaire du cœur. 1819T. Hope Anastasius I. viii. 174 The only thing he could have liked..was an affaire de cœur with the favourite Sultana. 1845Geo. Eliot Let. 6 Apr. (1954) I. 185 My unfortunate ‘affaire’ did not become one ‘du coeur’. 1908‘Ian Hay’ Right Stuff ii. 28 In either case the affaire terminates then and there. 1928A. Waugh Nor many Waters v. 208 That life of parties and affaires that had seemed so infinitely desirable in the early twenties. 1940M. Dickens Mariana iv. 93 The affaire Goss was only something to add a spice to school life, and did not affect in any way her love for him. 1956A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Att. ii. ii. 280 But you and she had an affaire de cœur! 1958― Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot ii. 271 It would be so awful to have one of those office affaires that they have in the women's mags. |