Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A marked exhibition of mutual love; an interview between lovers; a pictured, written, or acted representation of such an interview.

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Examples

  • Thor and Randy share what is meant to be a touching and passionate shower love-scene which ends up being pornoriffic, complete with close-up tongue waggling.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009

  • One thing Steve; I remember you once commenting that one reason you thought that a movie with a black male love-scene had never broken the 100 million mark was that movie-making was a cooperative effort.

    America talks, Hollywood listens Steven Barnes 2007

  • The love-scene, however, was fatally interrupted; and the pair were not long before they joined the captain, Mrs. Woodward, and

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • Moreover, when Scott began novel-writing, he was as old as Thackeray when Thackeray said that while at work on a love-scene he blushed so that you would think he was going into an apoplexy.

    Waverley 2004

  • I would think how it would be with them if they had to go home afterwards and write a love-scene.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • Macdermots; nor are any characters in the book equal to those of Mrs. Proudie and the Warden; but the work has a more continued interest, and contains the first well-described love-scene that I ever wrote.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • The plot is not so good as that of the Macdermots; nor are there any characters in the book equal to those of Mrs. Proudie and the Warden; but the work has a more continued interest, and contains the first well-described love-scene that I ever wrote.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • Pin was but a poor climber, and, as she clung trembling to her branch, needed so much prompting in her lines — even then to repeat them with such feeble emphasis — that Laura invariably lost patience with her and the love-scene ended in a squabble.

    The Getting of Wisdom 2003

  • Now, such a love-scene as that has absolutely never been written down; it was entirely decent, yet vulgar to the nth power.

    New Grub Street 2003

  • I might have waited and watched longer that love-scene under the trees, that sylvan courtship.

    Villette 2003

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