"Amusette" and "amourette" sont as the song says about Michèle - "2 mots qui vont très bien ensemble". From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
"Amusette" and "amourette" sont (as the song says about Michèle) - "2 mots qui vont très bien ensemble". From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Have a look at these beauties or starlettes ... amourette, causette, lichette, risette, soeurette, and the uber-original saperlipopette!. From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Selected French Vocabulary une buvette = refreshment stand plutôt = rather une amourette = passing fancy une causette = a little chat une lichette = a tiny piece, a little taste "a lick". From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Selected French Vocabulary une buvette = refreshment stand plutôt = rather une amourette = passing fancy une causette = a little chat une lichette = a tiny piece, a little taste ( "a lick") une risette = a little smile une soeurette = a little sister saperlipopette!. From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
May be! but mighty refreshing in these days when amourette follows amourette as surely as Monday follows Sunday, the only difference in the stock being the trade mark, which stamps the one with the outline of a perfect limousine, and the other with the front seat on the top of an omnibus; though believe me the Mondays and Sundays differ not at all. From Wordnik.com. [Desert Love] Reference
"Not one pretty amourette to cheer those twenty-one years of yours?" insisted Ogilvy. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
The biographers of Haydn have not succeeded in discovering how the Schroeter amourette ended. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Haydn]
Do I merit punishment everlasting for a silly amourette that lasted no longer than the July moon?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
As for the little amourette de voyage, I will leave the laurels to your handsome young friend and yourself. From Wordnik.com. [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference
And he cared passionately for love as he did for beauty -- had succumbed to both in spirit oftener than in the caprice of some inconsequential amourette. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
I have already stated my own views on the general subject of Sterne's love affairs; and I feel no inducement to discuss the question of their innocence or otherwise in relation to this particular amourette. From Wordnik.com. [Sterne]
Red: amourette; bois de rose (67); burgundy (19); cardinal; coral; flame; henna; Sahara; mulberry (16); plum; red (qua red); new red; rosewood; ruby; russet; scarlet; strawberry, and wine/beaum (wine) (25). From Wordnik.com. [Further thoughts about “Pavlova”] Reference
And, imagining that the one circumstance explained the other -- that it was an affair of some assignation outside the city in the interest of some amourette that was attended by difficulties within the walls -- he had thought no more about it. From Wordnik.com. [A Siren] Reference
No, I cannot believe in such sang-froid; and yet the regent has kept this amourette secret even from me; he goes out to hunt at St. Germains, announces aloud that he shall sleep at the Palais Royal, then all at once gives counter orders, and drives to Rambouillet. From Wordnik.com. [Une fille du régent. English] Reference
Above, see the slender-flowered fibrils, unceasingly swayed, of the purply amourette, which sheds in profusion its yellowy anthers; the snowy pyramids of the field and water glyceria; the green locks of the barren bromus; the tapered plumes of the agrosits, called wind-ears; violet-hued hopes with which first dreams are crowned, and which stand out on the grey ground of flax where the light radiates round these blossoming herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
"Perhaps something less strenuous would do," he said, mischievously -- "a pretty amourette?. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
“I was born with an amourette in my mouth.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
A love caprice, an amourette. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
amourette, causette, lichette, risette, soeurette, and the uber-original saperlipopette!. From Wordnik.com. [amusette - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Ladies’ imported all-wool Jersey jumpers “in all new season’s shades, including tangerine, amourette, nilesque, veronese, tan, Pavlova, oriflamme, rust, and burnt oak”. From Wordnik.com. [The definitive Pavlova color spectrum] Reference
Madame Baptiste has just told me she knew you formerly, and that -- she -- that is, you -- were -- in fact, you understand -- there had been -- so to say -- a little 'amourette' between you. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference
None of which solves the small mystery of what was meant by the new season’s shade of Jersey wool (Argus, Monday, April 26, 1926, p. 7), whichas far as I can ascertainconstitutes the earliest walk-on appearance of “Pavlova” in the guise of an abstract color, along with tangerine, amourette, nilesque (a truly ghastly effort to freshen up the canonical and, incidentally, exquisite shade long known aseau de nil), veronese, tan, oriflamme, rust, and burnt oak. From Wordnik.com. [Further Pavlova] Reference
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