lou
Example Sentences
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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
"O coumbo d'Uriage Bos fresqueirous, Ounte aven fa lou viage Dis amourous,Pg 210 O vau qu'aven noumado Noste univers, Se perdes ta ramado Gardo mi vers."
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
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
And so the people of my part, struck by the resemblance, call this mushroom lou rousset d'iou, or, in other words, yolk of egg.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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 Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
