Definitions
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- noun The group of languages and cultures which are
derived fromLatin . - adjective Of or dealing with
languages orcultures derived fromRoman influence andLatin : as in Portuguese, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Romance upon Romance_, which I need not tell my readers is a continuation of _Ivanhoe_.
Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848
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[Note 1: See authors Dictionary of Medieval Romance (London, 1913), preface, and article Romance, Rise and Origin of.
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine Lewis Spence 1914
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The title Romance may suggest a candlelit evening, but here that candle may be a stick of dynamite up our cultural ass.
Regina Weinreich: David Mamet's Romance at Bay Street: A Review 2010
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Which is why I distinguish the real-life crime of rape even from what I call Romance rape.
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Which is why I distinguish the real-life crime of rape even from what I call Romance rape.
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All the best and truest light of that which we call Romance shines steadily about them yet.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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But, of course, so quick and curious a people as the Italians had been sensitive to all preceding influences in the literary world, and before what we call Romance came in from
Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878
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Romance is introduced via fairy tales, etc. and children go to weddings and see pregnant women – and there is this mystery and curiosity about pregnancy and “where do I come from.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Romance is introduced via fairy tales, etc. and children go to weddings and see pregnant women – and there is this mystery and curiosity about pregnancy and “where do I come from.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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Romance is introduced via fairy tales, etc. and children go to weddings and see pregnant women – and there is this mystery and curiosity about pregnancy and “where do I comefrom.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010
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