English

Noun

loveday ‎(plural lovedays)

1. (now historical) A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     She ledeth þe lawe as hire list · and louedayes maketh / And doth men lese þorw hire loue · þat lawe myȝte wynne.

   • 1983, John Bossy, Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, p. 60:

     legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference […].

2. (chiefly poetical) A day devoted to love. [from 16th c.]