true-love-knot

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Noun

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true-love-knot (plural true-love-knots)

  1. A bracelet which partners both wear to show their love.
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101
      As in a stupor, forging headlong forward she was overtaken in the vicinity of Valopolis by the evening voiture of Madame Mimosa, the lady's monogram, "Kiki," wreathed in true-love-knots, emblazoning triply the doors and rear.