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true-love knot

true-love knot is the alternative form of true-love-knot.

Meaning of true-love-knot

Noun

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

  1. A bracelet which partners both wear to show their love.
    • 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.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 101

Forms of true-love knot

pluraltrue-love knots

Questions about true-love knot

What is true-love knot the alternative form of?
True-love knot is the alternative form of true-love-knot.

Words near true-love knot in the dictionary

  1. true-born
  2. true-bred
  3. true-false
  4. true-hearted
  5. true-life
  6. true-love knot
  7. true-love knots
  8. true-love-knot
  9. true-love-knots
  10. true-or-false
  11. true-pennies

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