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out-paramour the Turk

verb

Etymology

Uttered by the character Edgar in Shakespeare's King Lear (see quote). Likely a reference to one of various Ottoman Sultans (often referred to as the Grand Turk) famous for their large harems, or to the more general practice of polygyny associated with Islam.

Definitions

  1. To have many romantic affairs.

    • [W]ine loued I deeply, dice deerely, and in vvoman out paromord the Turke, […]
    • Thus Woman, Nature’s chastest work, / Lust-struck, out-paramours the Turk.
    • Another pamphlet asserts of them that "they out-swear the French, out-drink the Dutch, and out-paramour the Turk."

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