loveday
noun/ˈlʌvdeɪ/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English loveday; equivalent to love + day.
1
Historical A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day.
- legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference[…].1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, page 60:
- In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest.1994, John Clarence Bedell, Dispute Settlement and the Control of Violence in England, 1272-1330:
2
Poetic A day devoted to love.