lah
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of lah
C14: see gamut
Example Sentences
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We folded our feelings into dumplings and lavished love into lah mian.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2018
It felt that everyone was speaking in broken rhythms and a very modern Shakespeare form of delivery, and then my line would come – lah di dah di dah.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2013
By the middle of November, according to Cairo's semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram, even the Egyptian political advisers to Republican Strongman Abdul lah Sallal will be gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Persecution, next best thing to martyrdom for making a religion grow, followed Baha'u'l lah though it is difficult to see how his gentle faith should have bothered anyone.
From Time Magazine Archive
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English.Esperanto.Pronunciation.Come to the custom-house Venu al la doganejo veh'noo ahl la doh-gahneh'yo The custom-house officer La doganisto lah doh-gahnist'oh Have you your passport?
From Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation by Mann, William W.
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