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  • noun the basic unit of money in Lesotho

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Examples

  • Although of a most energetic character and a veteran of various campaigns -- Japan, Tonkin, Senegal, China (1900) -- M. Viaud was so timid as a young midshipman that his comrades named him "Loti," a small

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • "Loti," a small Indian flower which seems ever discreetly to hide itself.

    Madame Chrysantheme — Complete Pierre Loti 1886

  • Yet it is apparent from this collection that hacks, too, had literary antecedents, and one can hear echoes in their work of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, of Dumas and Pierre Loti, of Conrad and even Tolstoy.

    The Case of the Missing Adventure Story Allan Massie 2011

  • On a day, so far back that there was no way of estimating its distance, one, Somo, son of Loti, who was the chief of the island fortress of Umbo, had quarrelled with his father and fled from his wrath along with a dozen canoe-loads of young men.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • On October 3, they arrived in Constantinople, where they visited the house of Pierre Loti, then moved on to Athens, where DeMille visited the Acropolis and realized that the most beautiful building as to situation and design in the world is the Parthenon.

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • Multi-Fibre Agreement, competition from Asian textile producers and the appreciation of the rand - to which Lesotho's Loti is linked

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • Bazaars (Lesotho), Smart Centre clothing retailers, Cashbuild building materials retailers and Loti brickworks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • A privatisation unit spokesman said the government wanted strategic partners for Loti brickworks, Lesotho Airways, Lesotho

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "Loti was there, and Madame Rives-Chanler, and Sargent."

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Though he neither feels like Loti nor sees like Maupassant -- he reflects.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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