† love-druryn.
Obsolete.
a. Love; courtship: = druery n. 1.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun]
wooingc1000
wouhlechec1230
wouhlechunga1250
love work?a1300
love-druryc1300
love playc1390
suitc1475
lovemakinga1500
loveshipc1500
suiting1568
courtship1600
courting1607
suitoringa1640
amouring1675
sparking1804
sprunting1823
lovering1848
twosing1940
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 195 Til þat she were tuelf winter hold, And of speche were bold; And þat she covþe of curteysye, Gon, and speken of luue-drurye.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Sir Thopas (Hengwrt) l. 183 Of bataille and of chiualry And of ladyes loue drury Anon I wol yow tell.
b. A love-token or keepsake: = druery n. 2.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > love-token or love-gift
love-tokenOE
druery?c1225
love-druryc1400
favour1592
love-favour1597
gage d'amour1768
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 7604 J wil hir sende loue-drurye.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. x. 48 A Sydon steyd..quham Dydo..hym gave and luf drowry [L. pignus amoris].
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 1003, in Wks. (1931) I. 172 And he gaif hir ane lufe drowrie, Ane Ring set with ane riche Rubie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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