英和和英

語源

So called from being used as a token of love, or as a pledge of mutual affection.

名詞

love knot (複数形 love knots)

1. A knot or bow, as of ribbon.
   • 1906 August​, Alfred Noyes, “The Highwayman”, in Poems, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, OCLC 28569419, part 1, stanza III, page 46:

     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.