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Light-o'-love   Listen
noun
Light-o'-love  n.  
1.
An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love."
2.
Hence: A light or wanton woman; a woman inconstant in love. Called also light-of-love.





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"Light-o'-love" Quotes from Famous Books



... you cannot escape the destiny of all queens. The day will come when you long to be treated as a light-o'-love, to be mastered and swept off your feet by a strong man, one who will not prostrate himself in adoration before you, but will seize your arm roughly in a fit of jealousy. Macumer loves you too fondly ever to ...
— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac
... bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the ...
— The Spell of the Yukon • Robert Service
... is deep, and drowned folk sleep sound, An' it might be the best to do; But when he made me a light-o'-love He made me a mother too. I've had enough sin to last my time, If 'twas sin as I got it by, But it ain't no sin to stand by his kid And work for ...
— Many Voices • E. Nesbit
... was not unaware that many people in Kirton frowned on him as an unprincipled deceiver, or, at best, a fickle light-o'-love; he would have been much more surprised, and also more displeased, to know that there was even one who thought of him as a deluded innocent, and had determined to rescue him from the snares which ...
— Half a Hero - A Novel • Anthony Hope
... son, never fear," said the broad window above, grinning all the length of the wall. "The son of the house been seeing his light-o'-love, and his ...
— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski
... there was a time when such hunger used to gnaw at my belly as you would never believe. It was then that my eyes became dazzled with the tokens of shame. So I took my fill of love, as does every woman. And once a woman has become a light-o'-love she may as well doff her shift altogether, and use the body which God has given her. And, after all, an independent life is the best life; so I hawk myself about like a pot of beer, and say, 'Drink of this, anyone who likes, ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky


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