lunes

[ loonz ]

/ lunz /

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Archaic. fits of madness.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

1605–15; <French, Middle French, plural of lune caprice <Medieval Latin lūna fit of lunacy, special use of Latin lūna moon; compare German Laune

Now it strikes me that there is quite as much tautology in "unsane lunes" as in the double epithet, "dangerous, unsafe."
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853|Various
Sir Launcelot said: "Yea, Lady, and there she hangs, caught by her lunes in yonder elm-tree."
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table|Howard Pyle
In the course of a few hours poor Lunes was brought to me in a most desolate condition.
Captain Canot|Brantz Mayer
The Iroquois respected their palisades and demi-lunes, and withdrew, after burning two Huron prisoners.
Pioneers Of France In The New World|Francis Parkman, Jr.

Double caponnières connected the tenailles with the demi-lunes.
Annals of a Fortress|E. Viollet-le-Duc