amatory rites

amatory rites
   acts of copulation
   Not the marriage service:
    ... my two friends soon translated both their sleeping arrangements and their deafening amatory rites to the bed in Nathan's quarters. (Styron, 1976)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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