The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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In the album’s liner notes, the band offers “special thanks from these louses to our spouses for letting us make all this racket around the houses.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
These include ensuring legal protections for endangered louses and nematodes, building parasitism into the K-12 curriculum, and getting the public not just mildly curious but “enthusiastic” about parasites.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
In layman's terms, it's a hotel for bugs, the smallest of the small—wood louses, millipedes, and anything else that could find its way in.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
Maybe all her friends are a bunch of louses and she should cut her losses and not invite them to the wedding.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2013
The dozen white louses do become an old coat well; it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by John Glover
