'true-lover's knot' definitions:

Definition of 'true-lover's knot'

From: GCIDE
  • Truelove \True"love`\, n.
  • 1. One really beloved. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. --T. R. Lounsbury. [1913 Webster]
  • Under his tongue a truelove he bore. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot. [1913 Webster]