ladylove

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.  

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.

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

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

Upon one occasion she incurred Jupiter’s wrath by relating to Juno a conversation she had overheard between him and one of his numerous ladyloves.