out-paramour the Turk

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Meaning: (archaic,idiomatic)To have manyromanticaffairs.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,[…], published1608,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iv]:wine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in womanout paromord the Turke1766,Evan Lloyd,The Methodist‎[1], reprint edition,University of California, Los Angeles, published1972,→OCLC:ThusWoman, Nature’schastestwork, /Lust-struck,out-paramours the Turk.1849,Eliot Warburton,Memoirs of Prince Rupert, and the Cavaliers, volume 2, London:Richard Bentley (publisher),→OCLC,page316:Another pamphlet asserts of them that "they out-swear the French, out-drink the Dutch, andout-paramour the Turk."1855,Blanche Dearwood, 2nd edition, New York:Bunce & Brother,→OCLC,page308: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 womanout-paramouring the Turk.1881August 28, “Both Sides of a Story”, inMemphis Daily Appeal, volume40, number213,Memphis, TN,→ISSN,page 2, column 8:He is charged, too, with havingout-paramoured the Turk; making himself notorious in New York by his attentions to a Russian lady of distinction;[…]1882March 18, “Review. The Marriages of the Bonapartes.”, inThe Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, volume 33, number 1132 (new series),New South Wales,→ISSN,page413, column 3:Napoleon, it has been well said, "out-paramoured the Turk." The history of his liaisons would fill a large volume.1884August 7, “Public Opinion.”, inSt. Johnsbury Caledonian, volume47, number2454,St. Johnsbury, VT: C.M. Stone & Co.,→ISSN,page 2, column 5: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 womanout-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.1895, John Devoy,Rochester and the Post Express: A History of the City of Rochester[…],Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Co.,→OCLC,page15:Several murders were attributed to him; heout-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.1897April 16, “The Lady Killer.”, inPetersburg Times, volume10, number497,Petersburg, SA,→ISSN,page115, column 1:Heout 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.1907, Frank C. Nicholson,Old German Love Songs,Chicago:University of Chicago Press,→OCLC,pages xxvi–xxvii:The second influence we have to consider is that of the secular Latin lyric of the Wandering Students orclerici 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 womenoutparamoured 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.1994,Paul Muldoon, “Yarrow”, inThe Annals of Chile, London:Faber & Faber,→ISBN,page148: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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