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romancer¹

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From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance + -er.

noun romancers

  1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance. Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.
  2. dated A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc. [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.

romancer²

noun romancers

  1. A romantic film or television show. Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.

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@misc{romancer_2026,
  title = {romancer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/romancer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}