labour of love

plural labours of love

1. UKalternativeAlternative spelling of labor of love.

   SETG's work has been a labour of love on rolling stock that's far from the glamorous end of 'top link' locomotive preservation.

   2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3

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   This labour of love finds the Stones and their associates – bassist Darryl Jones and twinkling pianist Chuck Leavell – having a high old time, playing tunes they know inside out; […].

   2016 December 4, Kitty Empire, “The Rolling Stones: Blue & Lonesome review – a labour of love”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   There should, though, be more concerts like this one. The entire evening was a Brucknerian labour of love, mixing the obscure and the familiar, and provided further proof that Rattle has increasingly embraced this composer as he has aged.

   2021 September 20, Martin Kettle, “LSO/Rattle review – a Brucknerian labour of love”, in The Guardian, →ISSN