love knot

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Speaking of misfortunes, the Enys-Mark-Keren love knot ends even more poorly than I thought possible.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2015

Here, the empty spaces, the holes in the white love knot of figures, are as interesting as the limbs, bodies and heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Herrick:— “Thou sent’st to me a true love knot; but I Return a ring of jimmals, to imply Thy love had one knot, mine a triple tye.”

From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)

The hair in the men was allowed to flow to the shoulders or gathered in a love knot, while the whiskers and beard formed a point.

From The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Tytler, Sarah

It is the true love knot of a woman's heart, therefore cannot be undone.

From The Growth of English Drama by Wynne, Arnold