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• luce
  luce

  noun

  a pike, especially when fully grown.
• Luce
  Luce

  noun

  Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.

luce

¹ American  

[loos] / lus /

noun

1. a pike, especially when fully grown.

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Luce ² American  

[loos] / lus /

noun

1. Clare Boothe, 1903–87, U.S. writer, politician, and diplomat.

2. Henry Robinson, 1898–1967, U.S. publisher and editor (husband of Clare Boothe Luce).

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luce British  

/ luːs /

noun

1. another name for pike 1

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Etymology

Origin of luce

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French lus pike < Late Latin lūcius

Example Sentences

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Lamprey fresh baked, flampeyn flourished with an escutcheon royal, therein three crowns of gold, planted with flowers de luce, and flowers of camomile wrought of confections.

From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson

"Quidam sunt tam umbratiles ut putent in turbido esse quicquid in luce est," I have taken some pains to hunt for, but hitherto without success.

From Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Lowe's Ex luce lucellum is famous in history; nearly became the epitaph of a Ministry; certainly was the funeral wail over a carefully-constructed Budget.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

“Aye, aye,” quoth Sir Hugh; “the fresh fish is the luce; it is an old cod that is the salt fish.”

From Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But waiving this, you have made it luce clarius to all the world that so late as the year 1882, to you “Euthalius” was nothing else but “a name.”

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon

Along with being the first Ferrari with an all-electric powertrain, the Luce is also Ferrari’s first five-seat vehicle and its first mass-produced car to carry a price tag above $600,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Billionaire philanthropist Herbert Wertheim paid a record-setting $40 million for a bespoke Ferrari Luce at a Sotheby’s charity auction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

An optometrist turned billionaire philanthropist with an eye for bold design paid a record-setting $40 million for a bespoke Ferrari Luce at auction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The unveiling of the Luce was seen as one of the biggest launches of a new car in recent years.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” Dr. Luce told them, offering an explanation for my disappearance.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides