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love-making|ˈlʌvˌmeɪkɪŋ|
Amorous proposals or intercourse, courtship.
c1450Merlin 87 Vlfyn is som-what a-quytte of the synne that he hadde in the love makinge. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. ii, I looked round that mart of millinery and love-making, which was celebrated in the reign of Charles II. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 114 The whole Borough, with all its love-makings and scandal-mongeries.
fig.1625Bacon Ess., Truth (Arb.) 500 The Inquirie of Truth, which is the Loue-making, or Wooing of it.
attrib.1830Moore Mem. (1854) VI. 135 My sweet Bess and I recollected the time when we used, in our love-making days, to stroll for hours there together.
So ˈlove-maker, ˈlove-making a.
1747S. Fielding Fam. Lett. 81 The Conversation of Fools and general Love-makers. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. vi. 1532, I..bear no more love-making devils: hence! |