loure

American  

[loo-er] / ˈlu ər /

noun

• loures
  plural

1. Dance. a French Baroque dance or the style of music used for it, usually in 6/4 time.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• loures
  plural

Example Sentences

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loure loures

Thereat exceeding wroth was Satyran; And wroth with Satyran was Blandamour; And wroth with Blandamour was Erivan; And at them both Sir Paridell did loure.

From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Lonesome Tunes, 33. loure, 75; example of, from Bach, 79.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding

And sche began to loure tho, And seide, "Ther is manye of yow Faitours, and so may be that thow Art riht such on, and be feintise Seist that thou hast me do servise."

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

Then she chored the bori kāni, an’ it shelled avree, “Mukk mandy jāl an’ I’ll sikker tute ki you can loure a rāni-chillico.” 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

Ne beo þe loure þene þe solf; ne þin mei. ne þin maȝe.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall

In Tunes, which begin with odd Notes, as Gavots, Chaconnes, Jiggs, loures, Bouree's, &c. the foregoing Marks must be made Use of in the beginning of the Tract.

From Orchesography Or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures by John Weaver