- plural of lux.
luces
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The dressing ritual concludes as she puts on her ornate scarlet and gold jacket – the traje de luces, or suit of lights.
From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2017
All his successors gone before him hath done’t; and all his ancestors that come after him may: they may 15 give the dozen white luces in their coat.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
The white Li n on the English part, For sooth as I you sayne, The luces and the crescents both The Scots fought them again.
From The Book of Old English Ballads by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
A redde purple velvet cope, with the border of imagrie, having the assumption of our Ladie behinde and three little angels about her and the greater being full of floure de luces, 46s. 8d.;—1557,
From St. John's College, Cambridge by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
That is settled, Lewin"—with a nod to the milliner—"the silver fleurs de luces for the wedding mantua.
From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
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