| 词汇 | love day |
| 词源 | love day. The ancient custom of settling disputes on legally appointed special days called love days is one that might well be revived. The custom is so old that the words are a translation of the Medieval Latin dies amoris. Shakespeare mentioned such love days in Titus Andronicus and the words also came to mean “a day devoted to love-making” in the 16th century, “when bonny maides doe meete with Swaines in the valley . . .” |
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