Dictionary entry

Truelove

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.