…a gathering or party at which people are encouraged to express feelings of friendship and physical attraction, associated with the hippies of the 1960s…
…the idea or practice of having sexual relations according to choice, without being restricted by marriage or long-term relationships…
…a temporary red mark on a person’s skin caused by a lover biting or sucking it as a sexual act…
…(in tennis and similar sports) a game in which the loser does not score…
…(of a relationship) characterized by ambivalent feelings of love and hate felt by one or each of two or more parties…
…the area of a person’s life concerning their relationships with lovers…
…a place where two lovers spend time together, especially in secret…
…a small sofa for two people, especially one designed in an S-shape so that the couple can face each other…
…the dodder, which is sometimes used medicinally and as a love charm…
…a romantic or sexual relationship between two people who are not married to each other…
…a necklace of small beads, especially as worn by hippies in the 1960s as a symbol of peace and goodwill…
…a section of Niagara Falls in New York that was evacuated after 1970s exposure that chemical wastes were buried in its residential neighborhood. It has been partially reoccupied…
…a feast in token of fellowship among early Christians; an agape…
…a marriage based on the mutual love of the couple rather than social or financial considerations…
…experiencing intense feelings of romantic love for someone; besotted or infatuated…
…intense but relatively shallow romantic attachment, associated with adolescents…
…promotion of a person’s welfare, especially that of an addict, child, or criminal, by enforcing certain constraints on them, or requiring them to take responsibility for their actions…
…a highly conventionalized medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman, first developed by the troubadours of southern France and extensively employed in European literature of the time. The love of the knight for his lady was regarded as an ennobling passion and the relationship was typically unconsummated…
…an actor whose main role in a story or film is that of a lover of the central character…
…feelings of humanity and compassion towards one’s fellow humans…
…a kind of knot with interlacing bows on each side, symbolizing the bonds of love…
…a fairground amusement for couples involving a train- or boat-ride through a darkened tunnel…
…a Mediterranean plant of the buttercup family, which bears blue flowers surrounded by delicate thread-like green bracts, giving a hazy appearance to the flowers…
…a South American plant with long drooping tassels of crimson flowers. Cultivated today as an ornamental, its seeds and leaves were formerly eaten in the Andes…
…if you love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their faults…
…(1785–1866), English novelist and poet. He is chiefly remembered for his prose satires, including Nightmare Abbey (1818) and Crotchet Castle (1831), lampooning the romantic poets…
…used to accompany an urgent request or to express annoyance or surprise…
…there is mutual dislike between (the people mentioned)…
…used to accompany an exasperated request or to express dismay…
