Păr'a-mour, n.

n. [Fr. par amour, i. e., by or with love. Cf. O. Fr. paraimer, to love greatly or affectionately.]

1. Love; gallantry. [Obs.]
2. A lover of either sex; one beloved; a wooer or a mistress;—formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one; hence, one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; especially, a kept mistress; a concubine.

He led her by the hand To be his slave and paramour In a strange and distant land. Longfellow. 3. A mistress. Shak.