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noun

Affair n.

That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; often in the plural. "At the head of affairs." "A talent for affairs."

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

(Mil.) An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

Action; endeavor. (Obs.) "And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun."

A material object (vaguely designated). "A certain affair of fine red cloth much worn and faded."

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"Affair" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the Intendant's ball at the Palace, my Lady de Tilly! neither you nor Mademoiselle de Repentigny, whom we are so sorry not to have seen to-day? Why, it is to be the most magnificent affair ever got up in New France. All Quebec has rung with nothing else for a fortnight, and every milliner and modiste in the city has gone almost insane over the superlative costumes to ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... session be submitted to your consideration; and in the meantime I can not but indulge the hope that the British Government will see the propriety of renouncing as a rule of future action the precedent which has been set in the affair at Schlosser. ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... that he had brought it on himself, as he had no business to oppose a traveller as he had done. By way of comfort he told us that the Frenchman had only been hit by two or three stones. Betty did not find this very consoling, but I saw that the affair was more comic than tragic, and would end in nothing. The postillion went off, and we followed him in ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... Tavia needed. She went to work with a will that day, and every time Dorothy glanced over at her (for Dorothy was as anxious for her success as if it were entirely her own affair) she would see Tavia "poring" over her book as if her very life depended upon her accomplishing just so much work and she was ...

— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose

... the act, and cheerfully recorded his glorification, in either case we should have made him out. But no; he is full of precautions to conceal the "disgrace" of the purchase, and yet speeds to chronicle the whole affair in pen and ink. It is a sort of anomaly in human action, which we can exactly parallel from another part ...

— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson

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