make love

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make love

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Calque of Old Occitan far amor, Middle French faire l'amour.

verb makes love · making love · made love

  1. euphemistic To engage in sexual intercourse. I caught them making love on my couch.
  2. archaic To make amorous approaches (to); to woo, romance, court. So from thenceforth, when loue he to her made, / VVith better tearmes ſhe did him entertaine, / VVhich gaue him hope, and did him halfe perſvvade, / That he iunb time her ioyaunce ſhould obtaine.

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