Meanings
plural love scenes
- A view, or pictorial or written representation, of romantic behavior.
“If there is a drop of red blood in the man the count will break in upon a very pretty love scene in about fifteen minutes from now.”
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 431 more example
Some of these inlaid pictures represent love-scenes with a childlike simplicity and freedom of manner which would not commend itself to the taste of the present day.
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 激情戲 /激情戏, 床戲 /床戏
- 激情戲 /激情戏 (jīqíngxì)segment in a film
- 床戲 /床戏 (chuángxì)segment in a film
Finnish rakastelukohtaus
- rakastelukohtaussegment in a film
German Liebesszene
- Liebesszenesegment in a film
Portuguese cena de amor
- cena de amorsegment in a film
Russian любо́вная сце́на
- любо́вная сце́на (ljubóvnaja scéna)segment in a film
Swedish kärleksscen
- kärleksscensegment in a film
Cite this entry
love scene. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/love%20scene
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