{ Lor"e*al (?), Lor"al (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the lore;
-- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.
Lor"el (?), n. [&?;. Cf. Losel.] A good for nothing fellow; a vagabond.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Lor"en (?), obs. strong p. p. of Lose. Chaucer.
Lores"man (?), n. [Lore learning + man.] An instructor. [Obs.] Gower.
||Lo`rette" (?), n. [F.] In France, a name for a woman who is supported
||by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure;
||-- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near
||which many of them resided.
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Lo`ret*tine" (?), n. (R. C. Ch.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812
at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters
of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote
themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans,
their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.
Lor`gnette" (?) n. [F.] An opera glass; pl. elaborate double
eyeglasses.
Lo"ri (?), n. (Zoöl.) Same as Lory.
Lo*ri"ca (?), n.; pl. Loricæ (#). [L., lit., a corselet of thongs, fr.
lorum thong.] 1. (Anc. Armor) A cuirass, originally of leather,
afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.