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Amorist   Listen
noun
Amorist  n.  A lover; a gallant. (R.) "It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe."






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"Amorist" Quotes from Famous Books



... long, was commonly curled in a manner that suggested the barber, and baldness had vanished from the earth. Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist," wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite. The pigtail was in evidence; it would seem that citizens of Chinese extraction were no longer ashamed of their race. There was little uniformity of fashion apparent in the forms of clothing worn. The more shapely men displayed their ...
— The Sleeper Awakes - A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes • H.G. Wells



Words linked to "Amorist" :   devotee, buff



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