'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]