lou
Example Sentences
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Sophisticated savers are turning instead to Treasury bills that pay nearly 7%; commercial paper, a form of corporate lou, that yields 7.5%; and commercial-bank certificates of deposit, that pay almost 8%.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pea, the broad bean, the vetch, and the chick-pea all have their vermin; but the haricot, lou gounflo-gus, never.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
Dins lis erso d'or, lou segaire, Ren plega, pitre au vent, rustico e canto gaire; Dins soun gousiè, la set estranglo la cansoun.
From Social Life in the Insect World by Bernard Miall
Presently the last-named individual turned to me— "Ces messieurs veulent-ils voir le Saut de lou Contrabandiste?" said he, in the barbarous dialect of the district, half French, half patois, with a small dash of Spanish.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
In a no less expressive fashion, the Provencal peasant calls it lou portofais, lou porto-caneu.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
