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Definition of Love knot
1. Noun. A stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love.
Generic synonyms: Knot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Love Knot
Literary usage of Love knot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"THE LOVE-KNOT TYING her bonnet under her chin, She tied her raven ringlets in;
But, not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"THE LOVE-KNOT. her bonnet under her chin, -*- She tied her raven ringlets in;
But not alone in the silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, For, ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"So Herrick : heere gathered together! no doubt hell is >>ruke k<*e Thou scut M
to me a true-love knot; but I Thv love had one knot, mine a triple tye. ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Thon sent'st to me a true-love knot ; hot I Thy love bud ouc knot, mine a triple
tyc. .... love knot ..."
5. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"... I quickly doff of Inkle blue ; Together fast I tye the garters twaine, And,
while I knit the knot, repeat this strain— Three times a true-love's knot I ..."
6. A Treasury of American Verse by Walter Learned, H. C. Edwards, Thomas McIlvaine (1897)
"THE love knot. TYING her bonnet under her chin, She tied her raven ringlets in ;
But not alone in its silken snare Did she catch her lovely floating hair, ..."
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