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ladylove

[ ley-dee-luhv ]

noun

  1. a beloved woman; sweetheart or mistress.


ladylove

/ ˈɪɪˌʌ /

noun

  1. rare.
    a beloved woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ladylove1

First recorded in 1725–35; lady + love
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When a male is assured that his ladylove is totally still, he skitters to her side of the leaf and mates with her in a matter of seconds.  

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But in Theater for a New Audience’s revival of Ionesco’s drama, he’s a man in a perpetually sunny “radiant city” who is hunting for the murderer who drowned his ladylove.

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The monarch’s power was construed as symbolic of God, and his wife was to be his handmaiden – not his ladylove.

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It had needed but this, the sight of helpless distress in his ladylove, to finish his subjugation.

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Jupiter vainly sought his missing ladylove, and it was only long afterward that he discovered her and her little bear son Arcas.

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