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
"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
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
Skip to My Lou, ii: A rhythmical, rimeless chant made up of the dance "calls," beginning: Steal your partner, skip to my lou, Skip to my lou, my darling.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Josiah Henry Combs
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
