love nest

noun

: a place (such as an apartment) used for amorous and often illicit rendezvous

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The main character, a married artist in her mid-forties, sets out from her Los Angeles home, stumbles into a psychosexual dynamic with a young rental-car attendee, and decides to remodel a motel room into a love nest. Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025 But when a scene of high drama — a love nest slaying — came straight to his doorstep, there were no special lighting and no camera in his hands. Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024 The room becomes a love nest, of a kind, but a terrible deadline looms. The New Yorker, 12 June 2024 Casa Kimberly: Casa Kimberly, a nine-suite luxury boutique hotel in Puerto Vallarta, was once the love nest of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Dan Koday, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for love nest

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of love nest was in 1919

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“Love nest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/love%20nest. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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