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A card sent or given (as to a sweetheart) on Saint Valentine's Day
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valentine
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Valentine (1832) was a novel published by French author George Sand . This was the second novel published in Sand's career as an independent author, the novel is notable for displaying many of Sand's preoccupations as an emerging novelist: love, social ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day," from Late Latin Valentinus , the name of two early Italian saints (from Latin valentia "strength, capacity;" see valence ). Choosing a sweetheart on this day originated 14c. as a custom in English and ...
Usage examples of valentine.
Valentine and Morrel were exchanging their adieux in the presence of Noirtier when a ring was heard at the door-bell.
If you scorn the maid at your window I will aerogram my immediate acceptance of a proposal of marriage that has been made to your poor Ada a month ago in Valentine State.
The picture was framed in aspidistras like a nightmarish valentine and across the lower margin was the top of a piano.
Valentine, could not pronounce the name Andrew, and so called him Ender, the name that he made infamous before he was fifteen years old.
Plikt had written what should have happened, if Ender and Valentine had had more sense of theatre.
In contrast with the old man, who is dragging his way to the tomb, are two children just entering into life -- Valentine, the daughter by my first wife -- Mademoiselle Renee de Saint-Meran -- and Edward, the boy whose life you have this day saved.
Stepping sideways, Valentine allowed Lady Franch to reenter the ballroom first.
It must have dropped Valentine off in the crags near Batmunkh Gompa, and he had come the rest of the way on foot, creeping into the city like a thief.
This was not necessarily a method meant to stave off panic, but Valentine left Jebel Haven to deal with the emergency in his own way.
Her agent, Valentine Lightner, was there, seated behind the glassy expanse of his desk.
Valentine were keeping up the bantering tone they had established from the first, so that no matter which way Miro decided, they would laughingly turn it into a choice between the two Wiggins.
It was so gracefully done that Miro wondered if Valentine and Andrew had discussed it in advance.
Valentine, accredited Necromance, performing an apparition on the body of Christabel Moorcock, also accredited Necromance.
Danny Valentine, world-class Necromance who retired rich at the top of her game after a hush-hush bounty hunt that nobody can dig up any information on except for the Nuevo Rio Mob War.
When Betty Raye found the unsigned valentine that had been slipped under her door that morning she had seen Bobby in the kitchen the other day and assumed it was from him.