Pronounced: FLY-blone, adj
Notes: I think I’ve read this word somewhere, but I didn’t know the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word Lovelace is “a seducer; a licentious man”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1700s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, I’ve run across our word as a name of someone in stories; I’ve never heard it used as a word in and of itself. Our word was named after a character (Robert Lovelace) in the novel Clarissa by Samuel Richardson and published in 1748.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 