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valentine
Part of speech: NounA sweetheart chosen on St. Valentine's Day; also, a love message, real, sentimental, or burlesque, sent on February 14th.
Usage examples "valentine":- Her name was Valentine, and at the command of her father, but not by her own wish, she was engaged to the Baron Franz d'Epinay. - "The World's Greatest Books, Vol III", Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds..
- They told him that there was a certain Goodge, in the town of Ullerton, who possessed letters so valuable to George Sheldon, as to be bought by his agent Valentine Hawkehurst. - "Charlotte's Inheritance", M. E. Braddon.
- Well before I could make a move he read that crazy valentine and of course they wasn't a word in it that I was serious when I wrote it and it was all a joke with me only not exactly a joke neither because I was really trying to let the little lady down easy and tell her good by between the lines without being rough with it. - "The Real Dope", Ring Lardner.