love-makern.

1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. C.iv ^v Talebearers, Newes cariers, Loue makers, suche as..please women.

1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing sig. C3^v Be not condemned for a common Louer, I meane, loue maker, to a world of weemen.

1613 W. Gamage Linsi-woolsie i. sig. B3^v (title of poem) On perfidious Carle, the loue-maker.

1747 S. Fielding Familiar Lett. 81 The Conversation of Fools and general Love-makers.

1849 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. xiii. 114 Of all the talk which takes place in this world, that of love-makers is surely, to the uninitiated, the most silly.

1885 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 145/1 Doris herself was so shy of love-makers that he did not mean to startle her by any premature avowal of his true affection for her.

1907 ‘N. Blanchan’ Birds Every Child should Know xvi. 235 This incessant love-maker..slowly sings coo-o-o , ah-coo-o-o-ooo-o-o-ooo-o-o , in a sweetly sad voice.

1950 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 29 Oct. 31/1 These glib lovemakers who fancy their technique with women, are never satisfied to confine it to their wives.

1990 J. McGill That Rubens Guy (1991) 37 The myriad noises of the Saturday tenement funnelled into the shell-like void: the girning babies and the nagging wives and the carping or snoring men and the lovemakers.