Commess

Synonyms for "commess" (1 found)

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Romance, tragedy, a simply sweet love story, shame and scandal in the family, bacchanal, commess and sex at its best have been depicted in thousands of romance novels for generations.

Source: wiktionary

"The alternative would have been to let the country believe that there were all kinds of shady, nefarious bits of commess going on inside here," he said.

Source: wiktionary

With an entire house to ourselves, you can only imagine the commess (creative trouble) we got into.

Source: wiktionary

Even the recognition that commess is a pervasive feature of village life does not affect the judgment that it is alien to respectability, to mainstream morality and behavioral propriety. Again villagers are faced with a contradiction between needing to act out their disapproval of deviant sexual activity and their belief that commess is antithetical to good manners and a commitment to mainstream moral and behavioral norms.

Source: wiktionary

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