loure

American  

[loo-er] / ˈlu ər /

noun

• loures
  plural

1. Dance. a French Baroque dance or the style of music used for it, usually in 6/4 time.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• loures
  plural

Example Sentences

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loure loures

I should remark on the word loure, that Mr Borrow has shown its original identity with loot, the Hindustani for plunder or booty.

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

Thereat exceeding wroth was Satyran; And wroth with Satyran was Blandamour; And wroth with Blandamour was Erivan; And at them both Sir Paridell did loure.

From Spenser by R. W. (Richard William) Church

Then she chored the bori kāni, an’ it shelled avree, “Mukk mandy jāl an’ I’ll sikker tute ki you can loure a rāni-chillico.” 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland

Lonesome Tunes, 33. loure, 75; example of, from Bach, 79.

From Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding

Cupide is boteler of bothe, Which to the lieve and to the lothe Yifth of the swete and of the soure, That some lawhe, and some loure.

From Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins by G. C. (George Campbell) Macaulay

In Tunes, which begin with odd Notes, as Gavots, Chaconnes, Jiggs, loures, Bouree's, &c. the foregoing Marks must be made Use of in the beginning of the Tract.

From Orchesography Or, the Art of Dancing The Art of Dancing by Characters and Demonstrative Figures by John Weaver