the last favour

the last favour
   copulation
   Granted after other familiarities. Also as last intimacies:
    A man... has a secret horror of an innocent young woman allowing the last intimacies to a man whom she does not passionately love. (Pearsall, 1969, quoting Patmore, c.l 890)
   For the diarist, the last thing:
    I had my full liberty of towsing her and doing what I would but the last thing. (Pepys, 1663 — to towse was to pull or shake about, whence towser, a dog used in bearbaiting, and then any mastiff)

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