(~s)
1.
An ~ is a piece of music, often one that is the introduction to an opera or play.
The programme opened with the ~ to Wagner’s Flying Dutchman.
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2.
If you make ~s to someone, you behave in a friendly or romantic way towards them.
He had lately begun to make clumsy yet endearing ~s of friendship...
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