Copulation
61callisthenics in bed — copulation Callisthenics is training in graceful movement: ... other than callisthenics in bed, and from some rumours I hear, you re getting plenty of that. (Hailey, 1979, describing a libertine) …
62chambering — copulation The activity normally takes place in an upstairs room: Harriet heard more than she wanted of the chambering next door. (Manning, 1978) …
63coition — copulation It started by meaning mutual attraction, as of planets: While Titian was mixing rose madder His model sat poised on a ladder. Her position, to Titian, suggested coition So he nipped up the ladder and had her. (old …
64congress — copulation Literally, a coming together, as in the Indian Congress Party, which restricts its activities in the main to politics. Also as sexual congress: I had heard precisely how that acrobatic quartet achieved congress. (Fowles, 1977 …
65conjugal rights — copulation with your spouse Legal jargon, from the parties being yoked together, and indeed in some societies a symbolic yoke formed part of the marriage ceremony. A woman is unlikely to seek these rights from her husband except in satire:… …
66connubial pleasures — copulation Although connubial means to do with marriage, the pleasures to which the phrase alludes can be taken within or without that institution: She never married, but it didn t prevent her from enjoying connubial pleasures. (Ludlum …
67the deed — copulation Usually extramarital and always so if it is dirty or vile: ... one that will do the deed Though Argus were her eunuch. (Shakespeare, Love s Labour s Lost) …
68double time — copulation outside marriage There is increased payment for overtime working, and see two time: Your wife is standing right beside you and you are practically accusing her of a little double time. (Chandler, 1953) …
69droit de seigneur — copulation by a male employer with a female employee Literally, a right of the lord of the Manor, which was said to include, fictitiously in most cases, copulating with each virgin in his domain. In modern times such a privilege was claimed …
70embraces — copulation Literally, clasping in the arms with familial or sexual affection: ... solicited the gratification of their taste for variety in my embraces. (Cleland, 1749) The singular is rare: When a girl s lips grow hot, her sex… …