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To engage in sexual intercourse, especially with tender affection and mutual devotion.
"They retreated to the cabin to make love by the fireplace."
"The ballad describes two lovers making love beneath the stars."
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In Shakespeare’s era, "to make love" meant to pay court or woo someone. By the 1920s, it took on its modern intimate physical meaning.
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