Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cold, insincere. or conventional love or love-making.
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Examples
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-- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in a dark corner.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605
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mdash;in scattering compliments, tendering visits, gathering and venting news, following feasts and plays, making a little winter-love in a dark corner.
Winter-Love in a Dark Corner Con Chapman 2012
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