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  • noun Plural form of white-heart.

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Examples

  • Black-hearts and white-hearts, bubbled with the sun,

    Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1899

  • Chinese girls; the Montmorencies suggested the dumpy mouths of buxom women; the English ones were longer and graver-looking; the common black ones seemed as though they had been bruised and crushed by kisses; while the white-hearts, with their patches of rose and white, appeared to smile with mingled merriment and vexation.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

  • "Only cherries, Mistress Rachel: -- our early white-hearts, which my Lady loveth, and Aunt Thekla sent me hither with the first ripe."

    Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864

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