love knot
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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
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
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
I heard his suit the Coxcomb ply; I heard her answer—"No;" A true love knot he ne'er could tie, Who could not bend a bow.
From Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
