out-paramour the Turk

present singular third person out-paramours the Turk · participle present out-paramouring the Turk · participle past out-paramoured the Turk · past out-paramoured the Turk

1. archaicidiomaticTo have many romantic affairs.

   Thus Woman, Nature’s chastest work, / Lust-struck, out-paramours the Turk.

   1766, Evan Lloyd, The Methodist, reprint edition, University of California, Los Angeles, published 1972, →OCLC

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   [W]ine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in vvoman out paromord the Turke, […]

   c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […], published 1608, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], signature G2, recto

   Another pamphlet asserts of them that "they out-swear the French, out-drink the Dutch, and out-paramour the Turk."

   1849, Eliot Warburton, Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley (publisher), →OCLC, page 316

   You know Poor Tom's frightful category: false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand, hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey; loving wine deeply, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramouring the Turk.

   1855, Blanche Dearwood, 2nd edition, New York: Bunce & Brother, →OCLC, page 308

   He is charged, too, with having out-paramoured the Turk; making himself notorious in New York by his attentions to a Russian lady of distinction; […]

   1881 August 28, “Both Sides of a Story”, in Memphis Daily Appeal, volume 40, number 213, Memphis, TN, →ISSN, page 2, column 8

   Napoleon, it has been well said, "out-paramoured the Turk." The history of his liaisons would fill a large volume.

   1882 March 18, “Review. The Marriages of the Bonapartes.”, in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, volume 33, number 1132 (new series), New South Wales, →ISSN, page 413, column 3