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love-mate|ˈlʌvmeɪt|
Also 6 loves-mate.
[f. love n.1 + mate n.]
The person with whom one is mated in love; a lover or sweetheart.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 108 At my tears showring dyd he sigh?..dyd he yeeld ons mercye toe loouemate? 1591Greene Farew. to Follie 2nd Ded. (1617) A 3 b, Sweet Companions, and Loue-mates of Learning. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. vi. 20 For her her mother Ceres and her Loves⁓mate did complaine. 1817Byron Lament Tasso v, A Princess was no love-mate for a bard. 1902Edin. Rev. Oct. 319 The willing, or it may be unwilling, love-mate of Paris. |