lover's knot

noun

Origin:
1585–95

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lover's knot

noun
a stylized or decorative knot used as an emblem of love [syn: love knot
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Lover's knot is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
Example sentences
Each missive was tied with a lover's knot of different colored ribbons and contained a pointed offering.
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