love nest

noun

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

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And in the early 1970s, two of the most famous musicians in the world learned about a lot of it from a TV in their cozy, two-bedroom love nest in New York City’s West Village. Whitney Friedlander, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025 Ugh, the uncles bust in on Mina and Demetrius’s hotel love nest and the (white) cops end up getting involved, hauling in both Mina and Demetrius. Emma Specter, Vogue, 25 June 2025 Fortunately, they are met by curious neighbors who saunter into Robyn and Dante’s love nest. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 May 2025 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 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 9 Nov. 2025.

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