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† love-drury Obs.
[f. love n.1 + druery. Cf. love-amour, love n.1 16.]
a. Love, love-making, courtship: = druery 1.
b. A love-token or keepsake: = druery 2.
a.c1300Havelok 195 Til þat she were tuelf winter hold, And of speche were bold; And þat she couþe of courteysye, Gon, and speken of luue-drurye. c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 184 Of bataille and of chiualry And of ladyes loue drury Anon I wol yow telle.
b.13..K. Alis. 7610, Y wol sende hire love-drewry. 1513Douglas æneis v. x. 48 A Sidoun steid..quham Dido..gaif hym in luif drowry [L. pignus amoris]. 1550Lyndesay Sqr. Meldrum 1003 And he gaif hir ane lufe drowrie, Ane Ring set with ane riche Rubie. |