ladylove
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of ladylove
Example Sentences
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When a male is assured that his ladylove is totally still, he skitters to her side of the leaf and mates with her in a matter of seconds.
From National Geographic
But in Theater for a New Audience’s revival of Ionesco’s drama, he’s a man in a perpetually sunny “radiant city” who is hunting for the murderer who drowned his ladylove.
From New York Times
It had needed but this, the sight of helpless distress in his ladylove, to finish his subjugation.
From Project Gutenberg
Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas.
From Project Gutenberg
There was the Bachelor whose atrocious cook filled our chambers with the rank odours of smoked herring and burnt meat, and whose deserted ladylove filled the stairs with lamentations.
From Project Gutenberg
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