Romancer

Definitions

1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
2. A romantic film or television show.
3. A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
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Examples

“Once I used to believe⟳ I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.”

“[W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become⟳ the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.”

“No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place⟳, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like⟳ shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.”

“That’s a good reminder of how they won the referendum: these cavalier romancers trounced the roundhead number-cruncher remainers. Surely the country wouldn’t be fooled by the same trick⟳ twice.”

“Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.”

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