lunes
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lunes
1605–15; < French, Middle French, plural of lune caprice < Medieval Latin lūna fit of lunacy, special use of Latin lūna moon; compare German Laune
Example Sentences
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"First #coffee of the first #monday of the first month of a brand new year. Primer café del primer lunes del primer mes del año nuevo #lunes #cafe," she captioned the post.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022
The kids that I saw there were loud, but they weren't wild-eyed lunes.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 21, 2011
Señor Ascencio read each word out loud as he wrote para el lunes on the board.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
Hippocrates showed how to square three particular lunes of different kinds and then, lastly, he squared the sum of a circle and a certain lune.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
I hope to see you whenever you get time, for I feel really attached to you for your many sympathies with me, and patience at all my lunes....
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller
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