Lully

American  

[loo-lee, ly-lee, luhl-ee] / ˈlu li, lüˈli, ˈlʌl i /

noun

1. Italian Lulli.  Jean Baptiste 1632–87, French composer, especially of operas and ballets, born in Italy.

2. Catalan Lull.  Raymond or Ramón Doctor Illuminatus, 1235?–1315, Spanish theologian, philosopher, and author.

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Lully British  

noun

1. Jean Baptiste (ʒɑ̃ batist), Italian name Giovanni Battista Lulli. 1632–87, French composer, born in Italy; founder of French opera. With Philippe Quinault as librettist, he wrote operas such as Alceste (1674) and Armide (1686); as superintendent of music at the court of Louis XIV, he wrote incidental music to comedies by Molière

2. Also: Lull.  Raymond or Ramón (raˈmɔn). ?1235–1315, Spanish philosopher, mystic, and missionary. His chief works are Ars generalis sive magna and the Utopian novel Blaquerna

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Example Sentences

The mythological story told here, with a score by Jean-Baptiste Lully, so entranced Louis XIV that his affection became synonymous with the music.

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Their repertoire, with its founding specialty in the French Baroque of Lully, Rameau and Charpentier, doesn’t check fashionable boxes of diversity, equity and inclusion.

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“I think Japan will lose our momentum to strengthen our defense,” said Lully Miura, a political scientist and head of the Yamaneko Research Institute in Tokyo.

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Lully Miura, founder of the Yamaneko Research Institute, said the party election will serve to energize the base ahead of the general election.

From Washington Post

“The Japanese public wants to see a female prime minister, but in the inside-party struggle, she has no base,” said Lully Miura, a political scientist and head of the Yamaneko Research Institute in Tokyo.

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