amourette

From French amourette.

amourette (plural amourettes)

1. A petty love affair.
   • 1876, The New York Drama, volumes 1-2, page 1:

     I thought it only an amourette when you told me. It was a fire — a conflagration; subdue it.

2. The love grass, or quaking grass.
3. A cupid.

From amour +‎ -ette.

• IPA^(key): /a.mu.ʁɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

amourette f (plural amourettes)

1. fling, petty love affair, amourette
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères; republished as Eleanor Marx, transl., Madame Bovary, 1886:

     Mais il se trompait; Léon ne poursuivait aucune amourette.

     But he was mistaken. Léon was after no love-making.

• coup de foudre
• coup de cœur

• “amourette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012