out-paramour the Turk

Definitions

To have many romantic affairs.

archaic, idiomatic

Examples

“wine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in woman out paromord the Turke”

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

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

“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.”

“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; […]”

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

“If a candidate for president of the United States were as wicked a man as Edgar depicts himself—one that swore as many oaths as he spoke words, and broke them in the sweet face⟳ of Heaven; one that slept in the contriving of lust and waked to do it; who loved wine dearly, dice dearly, and in woman out-paramoured the Turk—we should not say⟳ that it was much of anybody's business so long as he attended to his public duties and made no pretence to superior morality.”

“Several murders were attributed to him; he out-paramoured the Turk, having had throughout this region a variety of white and Indian mistresses; was accused of forgery and larceny, and was withal a tory in the Revolution.”

“He out paramoured the Turk, falling in love⟳ with half the "military ladies" of his regiment, or rather he contrived to make⟳ them fall⟳ in love⟳ with him, pay⟳ his debts, contribute⟳ to his expenses, and wink at his infidelities.”

“The second influence⟳ we have⟳ to consider⟳ is that of the secular Latin lyric of the Wandering Students or clerici vagantes, that sad, mad, bad, glad brotherhood of scholars who in the Middle Ages travelled in quest of learning through France and Germany, and indeed all the great countries of Europe, taking their pleasure by the way, whenever they could get⟳ it. Wine they loved deeply, dice dearly, and in women outparamoured the Turk, but literature has reason⟳ to be grateful to them, for they have⟳ left behind them a store of songs written with irresistible freshness, brilliancy, and tunefulness.”

“It was now too late for Erec to pull⟳ out of Enid / while she masturbated her clitoris / and S— and I, like⟳, outparamoured the Turk”

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