Lorris
Britishnoun
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The authors of “Le Roman de la Rose,” Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, worked independently, 45 years apart and in different styles to write the poem’s two parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2023
“It was the first time anybody got the community board to think about New York City’s past, and about reopening High Bridge,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a member of the parks committee.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
“People who take the elevators all the time don’t see it as a luxury,” said Elizabeth Lorris Ritter, a Washington Heights community advocate who has led neighborhood efforts to retain the operators.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2011
“In a city of eight million, no one’s right to anything is absolutely to the exclusion of someone else’s right,” Ms. Lorris Ritter said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2010
Romance of the Rose, a poetical allegory, begun by Guillaume di Lorris in the latter part of the thirteenth century, and continued by Jean de Meung in the former half of the fourteenth century.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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