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Lorris

British  
/ lɔris /

noun

  1. See Guillaume de Lorris

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The authors of “Le Roman de la Rose,” Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, worked independently, 45 years apart and in different styles to write the poem’s two parts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

“It was the first time anybody got the community board to think about New York City’s past, and about reopening High Bridge,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a member of the parks committee.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2015

“People who take the elevators all the time don’t see it as a luxury,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a Washington Heights community advocate who has led neighborhood efforts to retain the operators.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2011

Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a member of Community Board 12 in northern Manhattan, said a resident’s right to peace and quiet should come first.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2010

But as the rubric of the poem has it— "Cyendroit trespassa Guillaume De Lorris, et n'en fist plus pseaulme."

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George