lovelore

Noun

lovelore (usually uncountable, plural lovelores)

1. (usually) The knowledge, science, study, or history of love.
   • It is not, in the common and cheap misuse of the term, the most "romantic" arrangement, but some not imperfect in lovelore have held that a woman's love is never so strong as when she is past girlhood and well approaching age, and that a man's is never stronger than when he is just not a boy.1917, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century)
   • Not in yours either,' he had said. 'Try the moon, in that case,' his friends told him helpfully, taking their cue from old romantic songs that featured the moon when it was still a part of lovelore.2013, Neel Kamal Puri, Remember to Forget
2. (usually) A romantic tale; a romance.
   • She has her own beauty and majesticity as she weaves and meanders away amidst high mountains and ravines— carrying with her the lovelores and legends of her sons since time immemorial.1999, Tashi Lama, The Monpas of Tawang: a profile