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
"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 Charles Alfred Downer
Here, for instance, in at least five languages, is a twelfth century cure for gout: Meu, treu, mor, phor, Teux, za, zor, Phe, lou, chri Ge, ze, on.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
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
Another peculiar stanza is exhibited in Lou Prègo-Diéu:— "Ero un tantost d'aquest estiéu Que ni vihave ni dourmiéu: Fasiéu miejour, tan que me plaise, Lou cabassòu Toucant lou sòu, A l'aise."
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
