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Definition of Truelove knot
1. Noun. A knot for tying the ends of two lines together.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truelove Knot
Literary usage of Truelove knot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... yellow, and grey ; the double row of leaves radiating from a figure called a
truelove-knot, alternately with г figure something like the tiger-lily. ..."
2. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1856)
"The impress is a truelove-knot uniting the initials, I—S. The ring may have
belonged to some person of the Skinner family, who held property at Thornton ..."
3. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... a pair, herba parís being the herb of a pair or betrothed couple, so called
in reference to its four leaves being set on the stalk like a truelove-knot, ..."
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