Also 6 loves-mate. [f. LOVE sb. + MATE sb.] The person with whom one is mated in love; a lover or sweetheart.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 108. At my tears showring dyd he sigh?… dyd he yeeld ons mercye toe loouemate?
1591. Greene, Farew. to Follie, 2nd Ded. (1617), A 3 b. Sweet Companions, and Loue-mates of Learning.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. 20. For her her mother Ceres and her Loves-mate did complaine.
1817. Byron, Lament Tasso, v. A Princess was no love-mate for a bard.
1902. Edin. Rev., Oct., 319. The willing, or it may be unwilling, love-mate of Paris.
