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/trˈulˌəv/ Listen

noun

Truelove n.

One really beloved.

(Bot.) A plant. See Paris.

An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. "Under his tongue a truelove he bore."

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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Etymology of 'Truelove'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... register in the handwriting of the master himself. His first visit in the morning was to the stables; the next to the kennels to inspect and criticise the hounds, also methodically registered and described, so that we can read the names of Vulcan and Ringwood, Singer and Truelove, Music and Sweetlips, to which the Virginian woods once echoed nearly a century and a half ago. His hounds were the subject of much thought, and were so constantly and critically drafted as to speed, keenness, and bottom, that ...

— George Washington, Vol. I • Henry Cabot Lodge

... about a year after he went to Straiths he obtained a release from his engagement with Mr Sanderson, and apprenticed himself to Messrs. Walker and Company, shipowners of Whitby. He went to sea for the first time when he was about eighteen, on board one of their vessels—the Truelove collier, [Note 1] of four hundred and fifty tons burden, trading between Newcastle and London. The lad soon showed that he was well fitted for his new profession, and in 1748, not two years after he had commenced ...

— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston

... of Nature; or, The Laws of the Moral and Physical World, by the baron d'Holbach, originally attributed to M. de Mirabaud with memoir by Charles Bradlaugh. Reprinted verbatim from the best edition. London. Published by E. Truelove, 256 High Holborn, 1884. In 8vo, pp. xi 520. B. ...

— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing