Lorrain

British

/ lɔrɛ̃ /

noun

See Claude Lorrain

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Anne Lorrain, Anaïs Médieu and David Point worked with an international team of researchers to investigate trends of mercury in tuna over the past 50 years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

It’s a mythological painting inspired by Ovid and based on a composition by the 17th-century painter Claude Lorrain.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

"The minister is extremely confident. He will not resign," said Lorrain.

From Reuters • Oct. 3, 2022

Several presented themselves in the form of a gallery with more than a dozen paintings by the French painters Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain that I never knew existed here.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2019

This Duchy is dependant on the Crown of France, tho' 'tis343 part of the Dominions of Lorrain, and is under the Jurisdiction of a Parliament.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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