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English Dictionary: truelove by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
truelove
n
  1. a person loved by another person [syn: sweetheart, sweetie, steady, truelove]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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}.
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