love knot

American  

noun

1. a knot of ribbon as a token of love.

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love knot British  

noun

1. Also called: lover's knot.  a stylized bow, usually of ribbon, symbolizing the bond between two lovers

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Etymology

Origin of love knot

1350–1400; Middle English love knotte

Example Sentences

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love knot

Speaking of misfortunes, the Enys-Mark-Keren love knot ends even more poorly than I thought possible.

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2015

Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

By hatred— By danger—the two hands that tightest grasp Each other—the two cords that soonest knit A fast and stubborn tie; your true love knot Is nothing to it.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones

The hair in the men was allowed to flow to the shoulders or gathered in a love knot, while the whiskers and beard formed a point.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

So Herrick:— “Thou sent’st to me a true love knot; but I Return a ring of jimmals, to imply Thy love had one knot, mine a triple tye.”

From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt