| 单词 |
true lover's knot |
| 释义 |
true-love knot, true lover's knot
Also † true-love's knot (obs.).
A kind of knot, of a complicated and ornamental form (usually either a double-looped bow, or a knot formed of two loops intertwined), used as a symbol of true love; a figure of this. Also fig. or allusively.
α1495Will J. Rogers (Somerset Ho.), Treue loue knottes. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 46 Ile knit it vp in silken strings, With twentie od-conceited true-loue knots. 1643Wither Campo Musæ 74 A Peace, that by a true-love-knot, shall knit Three Nations..into One. 1877W. Jones Finger-ring 414 True-love knots were common [on rings].
β1530Palsgr. 283/1 Treweloves knotte, neu damours. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 74 Sleeues..tyed with true-loues knottes (for so they call them). 1662Hibbert Body Div. ii. 145 The Lords brother, tyed unto him with a true-loves-knot. 1664Butler Hud. ii. i. 566 I'll carve your name on Barks of Trees, With True-loves knots, and Flourishes.
γ1615R. Brathwait (title) Loves Labyrinth: or The true-Louers knot. 1679Logan Treat. Hon. ii. 177 Or, on a Cheveron, Gules, a true Lovers Knot of the first. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. x, Splendid cake, covered with Cupids, silver, and true-lover's knots. 1906Lady 12 July 82/1 Pretty but simple hair ornaments are true-lovers' knots of sequined gauze, very stiffly wired. |
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