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Truelove   Listen
noun
Truelove  n.  
1.
One really beloved.
2.
(Bot.) A plant. See Paris.
3.
An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. "Under his tongue a truelove he bore."
Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; called also true-lover's knot.





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"Truelove" Quotes from Famous Books



... about a year after he went to Straiths he obtained a release from his engagement with Mr Sanderson, and apprenticed himself to Messrs. Walker and Company, shipowners of Whitby. He went to sea for the first time when he was about eighteen, on board one of their vessels—the Truelove collier, [Note 1] of four hundred and fifty tons burden, trading between Newcastle and London. The lad soon showed that he was well fitted for his new profession, and in 1748, not two years after he had commenced ...
— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston
... of Nature; or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World, by the baron d'Holbach, originally attributed to M. de Mirabaud with memoir by Charles Bradlaugh. Reprinted verbatim from the best edition. London. Published by E. Truelove, 256 High Holborn, 1884. In 8vo, pp. xi 520. B. ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing


Words linked to "Truelove" :   dulcinea, lover, valentine, sugar daddy, truelove knot


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