The phrase "affectionate friends" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe friends who share a strong bond of affection and care for each other.
Example: "Despite the distance, we remain affectionate friends, always checking in on one another."
Alternatives: "loving friends" or "caring friends".
As a result, her room in the hospice where she eventually died was constantly crowded with affectionate friends, laughing and sipping champagne.
Semiliteracy often produces epitaphs that are comic through grammatical accident for example, "Erected to the memory of / John MacFarlane / Drowned in the Water of Leith / By a few affectionate friends".
At times, rather than seeming like a circle of affectionate friends, they look like beauty pageant contestants (men and women alike), strutting across the stage and vamping hard when they get their moment in the spotlight.
Rossini was surrounded to the last by admiring and affectionate friends; Why Friday the 13th Is Unlucky.
"Nonsexual intimacy" might characterize the type of relations asexuals seek, and there are plenty of sites that make it easier for asexual-identified persons to "hook up" with one another: Affectionate Friends, Asexual Pals, Celibate Passions, and Platonic Partners, to name a few.
Your affectionate friend, LEWIS CARROLL.
Write me often, and think of me ^ays as your Affectionate friend, J. Brooke.
Guy, though he was only twenty-nine, was like an uncle to Tony and to the younger children, Adreth and Small Bob, too, less a lodger than an affectionate friend of the family.
Mothering for mothers who want to breast‐feed their babies ("When Mothers Need Mothering," by Dana Raphael, Feb. 8) may or may not be available from "a loving mother, an affectionate friend or an understand ing husband". As the author admits, more is needed than love and under standing.
He was lucky in the quality of his upbringing and education, lucky, also, to find a home at The New Yorker for work that might have seemed difficult and obscure; he was lucky in love a number of times — his second wife, Helen, especially, emerges in these pages as a wise and affectionate friend throughout his life.
From 1760 to 1762, Jefferson attended William and Mary College and there befriended Professor William Small, "a man profound in most of the useful branches of science" ([Au]: 4), lawyer George Wythe, "beloved Mentor in youth, and my most affectionate friend through life" ([Au]: 4 5), and Lieutenant Governor Francis Fauquier.
