Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A light, capricious woman; a wanton coquette.
- noun An old dance-tune.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters.
- noun Hence: A light or wanton woman; a woman inconstant in love. Called also
light-of-love .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An old tune of a
dance , the name of which made it aproverbial expression oflevity , especially inlove matters. - noun by extension A
flirtatious orwanton woman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman inconstant in love
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Examples
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The nurse and the guards believed FitzRoy was serving as Lord Denno's excuse for being in the area, in order to see his imaginary light-o'-love.
This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004
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And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
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Even on the mornings when I heard Dan's step, soft and wary on the cobbles, before the sun was up, and knew by the look of him, and the gruffness in his voice, that he had travelled many a weary mile from his light-o'-love, and that sleep had not troubled him, I would hear the stable door opening and Dan whistling like the cheery early bird as he opened the corn-kist.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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That is why a priest's light-o'-love is always some honest man's wife.
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In a brilliant gleam of electric light, shot from the train in the darkness, I thought I saw the face of my Dolores, with a white gag across the mouth, but the idea seemed so preposterous that I did not give it another thought, thinking it to be some phantom of an overwrought brain, and the woman some light-o'-love of the desperado.
A Queen's Error Henry Curties
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It was that, during her "Bohemian" period, he had endeavoured to fill the empty niche left in her affections by the departure of that light-o'-love, Captain Lennox, and had been repulsed for his pains.
The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham
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Consider – I give them in Shillitoe's formation – the choices open to us: above self-love dove shove glove true-love love lady-love light-o'-love
Try Anything Twice 1938
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And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
Songs of a Sourdough 1916
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And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
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"Why, your light-o'-love, for sure, friend, as we found along o 'you on a lonely island, _amigo_."
Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915
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