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.
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.
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