lai

American  

[ley] / leɪ /

noun

1. (in medieval French literature)

2. a narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets and dealing with tales of adventure and romance.

3. a lyric poem, often a love poem, having great metrical variety and designed to be sung to a popular melody.

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Etymology

Origin of lai

1200–50; Middle English < Old French. See lay ⁴

Example Sentences

Lai’s battalion was responsible for security at the entrances and throughout the hallways of the presidential office building.

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Lai later brought a member of the Taiwan Defense Ministry’s cybersecurity and electronic-warfare command into his spying activities.

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When Lai was eventually rotated out of the presidential-offices detail and risked losing access to lucrative intelligence, he recruited another sergeant and a corporal in his battalion to take over.

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Lai and three others were arrested that December.

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Lai was sentenced to seven years in prison.

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