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true-lover's knot

Truelove \True"love`\, n.

  1. One really beloved.

  2. (Bot.) A plant. See Paris.

  3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath.
    --T. R. Lounsbury.

    Under his tongue a truelove he bore.
    --Chaucer.

    Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover's knot.