loure

American  

[loo-er] / ˈlu ər /

noun

plural

loures

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

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Example Sentences

Where bárvelo mushis can kair wóngur tácho, chori mushis have to loure.

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Ne beo þe loure þene þe solf; ne þin mei. ne þin maȝe.

From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Hall, Joseph

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

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

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

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 Leland, Charles Godfrey