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
In a no less expressive fashion, the Provencal peasant calls it lou portofais, lou porto-caneu.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
"Ero un tantost d'aquel estiéu Que ni vihave ni dourmiéu: Fasiéu miejour, tau que me plaise, Lou cahessòu Toucant lou sòn A l'aise."
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred
Dins lis erso d'or, lou segaire, Ren plega, pitre au vent, rustico e canto gaire; Dins soun gousiè, la set estranglo la cansoun.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard
In the Vie de S. Hildefons by Gauthier de Coinsi,-- Cil lon desve, cil lou garol, Ce sunt deable, que saul Ne puent estre de nos mordre.
From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
