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sweater curse en · NOUN
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(uncountable) A superstition among knitters that making a sweater for a romantic partner increases the likelihood of a breakup.
At the time, Petteys didn‘t know about the boyfriend sweater curse, one of those bits of knitterly lore that gets handed down through the generations.
2010 March 23, Adrienne Martini, “March: Acquisitions, or You Spent How Much on a Book?”, in Sweater Quest: My Year of Knitting Dangerously, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 25:
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