"love knot" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "So called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.",
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      "form": "love knots",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:",
          "text": "They kept up the Christmas carol, sent true love-knots on Valentine morning, eat pancakes on Shrove-tide, shewed their wit on the first of April, and religiously cracked nuts on Michaelmas eve.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza III, page 46:",
          "text": "He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there / But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, / Bess, the landlord's daughter, / Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A knot or bow, as of ribbon."
      ],
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          "knot",
          "knot#Noun"
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        [
          "bow",
          "bow#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "ribbon",
          "ribbon"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "love-knot"
        }
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  "word": "love knot"
}

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  "etymology_text": "So called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 4, in The Vicar of Wakefield:",
          "text": "They kept up the Christmas carol, sent true love-knots on Valentine morning, eat pancakes on Shrove-tide, shewed their wit on the first of April, and religiously cracked nuts on Michaelmas eve.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906 August, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 1, stanza III, page 46:",
          "text": "He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there / But the landlord's black-eyed daughter, / Bess, the landlord's daughter, / Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A knot or bow, as of ribbon."
      ],
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          "knot",
          "knot#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "bow",
          "bow#Noun"
        ],
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          "ribbon",
          "ribbon"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "love-knot"
    }
  ],
  "word": "love knot"
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