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  • proper noun An extinct Algonquian language.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • This sounds very good but I don't know if I can get good tofu around here in Loup City can I?

    Summer Salad for the Grill Weary Sarah Lenz 2008

  • I don't know if I can get chicken livers here in Loup City or not.

    Feeling Posh while Impoverished Sarah Lenz 2008

  • He won fame in five campaigns against the corsairs of Morocco, fighting with such ferocity that he was called the Loup de Mer, the seawolf of France.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He won fame in five campaigns against the corsairs of Morocco, fighting with such ferocity that he was called the Loup de Mer, the seawolf of France.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • "Over there, " Sharpe said, and he plucked the helmet off the cart's shaft, 'there's a man called Loup, a Frenchman, and he leads a regiment of dragoons called the wolf pack, and they wear these helmets and they leave that mark on the men they kill.

    Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

  • We reached on the following day a wide shallow stream called the Loup Fork, which rises near the Black hills, and flows eastward about five hundred miles, parallel with the Platte, into which it empties forty or fifty miles above the

    Life in the Rocky Mountains 1844

  • A Loup is a rat, a Sioux a heavy buffaloe; let the buffaloes tread upon the rats and make room for themselves.

    The Prairie James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The zombie mastermind is the nefarious Dr. Leroux, originally of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, aka Loup-garou (or human hyena).

    Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News 2010

  • The frame on the right illustrates one of them: that it commemorates a Scottish nobleman of the era of Julius Caesar, himself named "Loup", who founded a settlement called "Lupolin" on the site of the future university city.

    Linkspam for 12-6-2009 nwhyte 2009

  • Jack Loup, who leads the Coalition for Louisiana Public Education and opposes the state's education reforms, criticizes his youth, Northeast roots and the lack of a Ph.D. in education.

    The Big Easy's School Revolution Matthew Kaminski 2011

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