Lovelace

[ luhv-leys ]

/ ˈlʌvˌleɪs /

noun

Richard,1618–56, English poet.

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Examples from the Web for lovelace

In the play, Babcock tries to persuade Lovelace to leave the abusive Chuck Traynor.
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Forty years later, Lovelace, who died in a car accident in 2002, is still a household name, an icon of the sexual revolution.
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The ingenuity of Lovelace was to show the distinction between two realities, both potentially true.
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While Lovelace gets many things right, it is the title character herself who seems to be severely underscripted.
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Adam Brody has been working in smaller films like the upcoming Some Girls and Lovelace.
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A woman's reputation—a thing so lightly thrown away with an idler's word, a Lovelace's smile!
Under Two Flags|Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
If Alexander exceeded Achilles in cruelty, may not many go beyond Lovelace in that, as well as in debauchery?
Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754)|Anonymous
Will you tell me, my dear, what you have thought of Lovelace's best and of his worst?
Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9)|Samuel Richardson
Perhaps so; but all the same Lovelace was the man to win matches.
The Loom of Youth|Alec Waugh
And you think yourself a Lovelace, a lady-killer, my poor Count!
The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2|Eugne Sue

British Dictionary definitions for lovelace

Lovelace

/ (ˈlʌvˌleɪs) /

noun

Countess of, title of Ada Augusta King. 1815–52, English mathematician and personal assistant to Charles Babbage: daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program

Richard. 1618–58, English Cavalier poet, noted for To Althea from Prison (1642) and Lucasta (1649)

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