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I've been perusing a glossary of castle terms and finding many of them terribly suggestive.

If you lived in a castle, you could walk with your lover along the allure (a walkway along the top of a wall) or lean against a chemise wall (one made of a series of small semicircular towers; I imagine it would look a bit like a ruffle made of stone). You could embrace on an embrasure (one of the low parts of the high-and-low battlement wall) or neck against a nookshaft (a small column set in an angle). Your relieving arch (an arch built to relieve pressure against another opening) could be carried by a respond (a half-pier that supports an arch).

Maybe the appeal of historical romance isn't the clothes at all but the architecture.