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amourettes

amourettes is the plural of amourette.

Meaning of amourette

Noun

amourette (plural amourettes)

  1. A petty love affair.
    • I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1
  2. The love grass, or quaking grass.
  3. A cupid.

Questions about amourettes

What is amourettes the plural of?
Amourettes is the plural of amourette.

Words near amourettes in the dictionary

  1. amounts of substance
  2. amour
  3. amour propre
  4. amour-propre
  5. amourette
  6. amourettes
  7. amoureux
  8. Amoureuxes
  9. amourist
  10. amourists
  11. amourous

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