gage d'amourn.
/ɡaʒ daˈmɔː//ɡɑːʒ daˈmɔː/ A pledge of love; a love-token.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > love-token or love-gift
love-tokenOE
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gage d'amour1768
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 145 His faithless mistress had given his gage d'amour to one of the Count's footmen.
1838 C. Dickens Let. 27 July (1965) I. 422 It is many months since I sent you a slight gage d'amour.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds II. xxxi. 60 That gage d'amour which you carry on your finger.
1930 ‘R. Crompton’ William's Happy Days vii. 157 He'd picked up a glove that she'd left in church last Sunday, and was treasuring it as a kind of gage d'amour.
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