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light-o'-love
[ lahyt-uh-luhv ]
noun
Archaic.
- a lover.
- a prostitute.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of light-o'-love1
First recorded in 1570–80
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Example Sentences
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She is no light-o'-love, my lord, but a good and honest maiden; and I would be the last to sully her purity by word or deed.
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But what if the travelling geisha were a light-o'-love to be picked up too easily to-day and cast forth to-morrow?
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His is a heart that never played The light-o'-love to wife or maid, But reverenced all womankind Before he found one to his mind.
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"You little light-o'-love...." he said, in a low, level voice.
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A mere light-o'-love and saucebox, as she had always herself called the miller's wife, was wholly unworthy to occupy, even in pity, the thoughts of so holy a man.
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