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- noun Plural form of
paramour .
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Examples
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DCFS officials have been seeing an increasing number of abuse cases in recent years involving boyfriends or girlfriends -- often termed "paramours" -- who abuse the children of multiple partners over a period of years, Marlowe said.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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DCFS officials have been seeing an increasing number of abuse cases in recent years involving boyfriends or girlfriends -- often termed "paramours" -- who abuse the children of multiple partners over a period of years, Marlowe said.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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DCFS officials have been seeing an increasing number of abuse cases in recent years involving boyfriends or girlfriends -- often termed "paramours" -- who abuse the children of multiple partners over a period of years, Marlowe said.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Adulterers who might once have called their paramours concubines (qie) for lack of a lowlier term can now aspire to precision; an ernai is a kept woman of less-official standing.
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Woods '"transgressions" have gone from the shocking to the downright sleazy as the New York Post reports the latest of his paramours is a porn star named Holly Sampson, the star of such titles as, Other Men's Wives, Descent into Bondage, and Diary of a Horny Housewife.
Ottawa Sun 2009
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It was the first time Cuomo has faced reporters since his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, suggested in an interview published Wednesday in Politico. com that Cuomo may have had "paramours" during his 15-year marriage to Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
Cuomo: Paladino's Infidelity Allegations Hurt Me, My Family AP 2010
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It was the first time Cuomo has faced reporters since his GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, suggested in an interview published Wednesday in Politico. com that Cuomo may have had "paramours" during his 15-year marriage to Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
Cuomo: Paladino's Infidelity Allegations Hurt Me, My Family AP 2010
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They had nowhere to go to dance, gamble, or search for paramours in public.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Today's Italian press, which routinely publishes photos of leaders and their paramours in various stages of public and private undress, often laments a lack of suitable morality.
Berlusconi: Undone by La Dolce Vita? Michael Ledeen 2011
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They love its predations because they have an unconscious drive for power over others, a power they have not earned through production and voluntary exchange but by the usurpation of the privileges offered by the State siren to its favorite paramours.
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