lovelore

English

Etymology

From love +‎ lore.

Noun

lovelore (usually uncountable, plural lovelores)

1. The knowledge, science, study, or history of love.
   • 1917, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century):

     It is not, in the common and cheap misuse of the term, the most "romantic" arrangement, but some not imperfect in lovelore have held that a woman's love is never so strong as when she is past girlhood and well approaching age, and that a man's is never stronger than when he is just not a boy.

   • 2013, Neel Kamal Puri, Remember to Forget:

     Not in yours either,' he had said. 'Try the moon, in that case,' his friends told him helpfully, taking their cue from old romantic songs that featured the moon when it was still a part of lovelore.

2. A romantic tale; a romance.
   • 1999, Tashi Lama, The Monpas of Tawang: a profile:

     She has her own beauty and majesticity as she weaves and meanders away amidst high mountains and ravines— carrying with her the lovelores and legends of her sons since time immemorial.