par excellence/ amusement, paramour. In some ways, the history of lonely-hearts ads is evidence of great change in Britain: few today would demand pig-husbandry of their paramour. In another way, very little is different

In some ways, the history of lonely-hearts ads is evidence of great change in Britain: few today would demand pig-husbandry of their paramour. In another way, very little is different https://econ.st/3JAa3b7

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par excellence
adj.

Being the best or truest of a kind; quintessential: a diplomat par excellence.

[French : par, by + excellence, preeminence.]

par·a·mour (păr'ə-mʊr')

A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship.

[Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by (from Latin per) + amour, love (from Latin amor, from amāre, to love).]