lou
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Sophisticated savers are turning instead to Treasury bills that pay nearly 7%; commercial paper, a form of corporate lou, that yields 7.5%; and commercial-bank certificates of deposit, that pay almost 8%.
From Time Magazine Archive
For example, that familiar animal the cat is called in Guyenne lou catou and even lou cat; but the word belongs to the Romance language, and is the same all through Languedoc and Provence.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
The pea, the broad bean, the vetch, and the chick-pea all have their vermin; but the haricot, lou gounflo-gus, never.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
That is why, struck by this shape, the Provençal peasant, in his expressive language, calls the Penduline lou Debassaire, the Stocking-knitter.
From The Life of the Spider by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
"I hope he will find a bridge per passa lou riou d'amor."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various
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