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[syn: fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Truelove \True"love`\, n.
1. One really beloved.
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2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.
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3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning,
perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
--T. R. Lounsbury.
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Under his tongue a truelove he bore. --Chaucer.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
truelove knot
n 1: a knot for tying the ends of two lines together [syn:
fisherman's knot, true lover's knot, truelove knot]