longe

American  

[luhnj, lonj] / lʌndʒ, lɒndʒ /

noun

1. a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.

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verb (used with object)

longed, longeing

1. to train or exercise (a horse) by use of a longe.

longe British  

/ lʌndʒ, lɒndʒ /

noun

1. an older variant of lunge 2

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Etymology

Origin of longe

< French, Old French: noun use of longe (adj.) < Latin longa, feminine of longus long ¹

Example Sentences

Live Text is no longe exclusive to M1-devices in Apple’s fourth beta.

From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2021

In 1615, Nicholas Withington, one of the earliest English travellers in India, wrote that water from the Ganges “will never stinke, though kepte never so longe, neyther will anye wormes or vermine breede therein.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2016

Joseph Ratzinger longe maius est munus, coram Ecclesia statuit summum principem in iustitia global mediam libram.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

A motion which declares "that the Royal Family is no longe necessary as part of the British Constitution" was laughed out.

From Time Magazine Archive

But if by excesse a man must in eyther part offend, I permit rather to watch to muche, then to lie in bedde to longe: so that in watchinge, there be no way to surfetting.

From The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse by Caius, John