Hypertext Webster Gateway: "truelove"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Truelove \True"love`\, 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.
--T. R. Lounsbury.

Under his tongue a truelove he bore. --Chaucer.

{Truelove knot}, a complicated, involved knot that does not
readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or
engagement; -- called also {true-lover's knot}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

truelove
n : a person loved by another person [syn: {sweetheart}, {sweetie},
{steady}]


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