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Example sentences for: endearment

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But then, like an endearment to a beloved one, they will murmur “pashmina” and spread before you a shawl of soft, warm wool shorn, they tell you, from the underbelly of the wild Himalayan goats.
It is also possible they are a corruption of poppet, poppit, poppette, poopet, from the French poupette doll, an endearment still used though ancient, poppet being the name for a pretty child or a dainty young woman.
Of course, while this form of address does away with the confusion created by the term "my friend," I think you'd agree that one should put off using the possessive endearment until it is truly called for, or it will come across as treacly baby talk.
This situation brings to public notice what words are used as terms of endearment in direct address between the sexes, more so a man to a woman.
I question what research and/or actual experience was used to determine that "since it has become a common phrase of salutation and even endearment among blacks, a high proportion of its current usage is in fact as a synonym for 'black person.