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bodice-ripper
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a sexually themed romantic/historical novel aimed at an adult female audience US- Miss Faust reminds us that women, too, are a little bit beastly, that they too have their pornography: Harlequin romances, novels of “sweet savagery,” bodice-rippers. — New York Times, p. 7–4, 28 December 1980
- A steamy bodice-ripper to help while away the hours in an airport lounge? — Opera News, p. 48, October 1998
- Diana Lindsay admits that Marshal’s journalism is as romantic as a Harlequin bodice-ripper. — San Diego Union-Tribune, p. E1, 14 March 2004
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