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† ˈdammaret Obs.
Also damouret.
[ad. F. dameret ‘an effeminate fondling or fond carpet knight’ (Cotgr.); deriv. of dame lady.]
A ladies' man: ‘one that spends his whole time in the entertaining or courting of women’ (Cotgr.).
1635Drummond of Hawthornden Commend. Verses to Person's Varieties, The Lawyer here may learne Divinity, The Divine, Lawes..The Dammaret respectively to fight, The Duellist to court a Mistresse right. a1649― Fam. Epist. Wks. (1711) 145 Place me with a damouret..if I praise him in the presence of his mistress, he will be ready to perform like duties to me. |