Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus.) a glove.

1948

Truth (Brisbane) 1 Aug. 5/3: . [F]our women's gloves were found concealed in Bray’s clothes (in Bray’s rhyming slang,‘gloves’ would probably be ‘turtle doves’ or ‘light-o’-loves’).

2. (UK prison) a prison governor.

1992

R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.