Plural of 'amatory'; love songs, love poems, or literary works focused on love and romance; can also mean spaces or contexts devoted to romance.
From 'amatory' (adjective relating to love) pluralized as if it were a countable noun, following patterns where adjectives become nominalized in literature and music contexts.
Treating 'amatory' as a plural noun shows how Renaissance and medieval writers spoke of love poetry as a category—you didn't just write 'love poems,' you contributed to 'amatories,' like a whole field of devotion.
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