Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To leap; spring.
- To melt; give way: applied to frost when it melts suddenly.
- To leap over; leap from.
- n. An obsolete variant of loop.
- n. A light silk mask or half-mask worn at a masquerade.
- n. A sort of grapple used in ancient times by the defenders of a fortress to seize and lift a battering-ram and thus prevent its action.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Iron Works) See 1st loop.
Examples
“Using voodoo, sorcerers purportedly can transform themselves into werewolves known as loup garou and cause fatal accidents and illnesses.”
“Constantly in flux with the seasons, it stars fresh seafood such as loup de mer, turbot and daurade flown in from the Mediterranean daily, along with the best ingredients from that part of the world.”
“Nice to see the colourful patch of “mufliers”/“gueules de loup” ( 'snapdragons') on the far right of the photo.”
“Pear bellinis were passed during cocktail hour, and the fashion talk continued during a dinner of organic chicken and loup de mer and chocolate panna cotta.”
“Fritz knows a terrible secret, and only he can act upon it, for Fritz had learned that the headquarters had not been randomly named, as Hitler himself had chosen the designation … chosen it because the Fuhrer himself was a lycanthrope, a ravenous loup garou.”
“An idiosyncratic favourite was Le temps du loup. b9n10nt says:”
“Here, along with a rather pink-lipped John the Baptist, we have a couple of waterfowl, a cat, two pretty human-looking rabbits, "le loup tenant le brebis" and, at the lower right, what's purported to be a fox but looks to me more like a lamb floating in the grass.”
The Huffington Post: Carolyn Vega: The ABCs of an Unknown Duchemin
“Finally, the 3rd flowers were "les gueules de loup", French common name for "les mufliers".”
“Et, pour reprendre le loup déguisé en Mère-Grand du Petit Chaperon Rouge:”
“The loup de mer is my favorite seafood dish on the exciting menu.”
The Huffington Post: Jay Weston: Chef John Sedlar's Innovative Latin Food at Playa
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘loup’.
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Masks
mascherone, eye mask, gas mask, welder's mask, ski mask, calypsis, balaclava, facemask, false face, fencer's mask, fencing mask, half mask and 89 more...
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Franco
fin-de-siècle, sang-froid, minatory, loup, son et lumière, bonhomie, l'heure bleue, frippery, pamplemousse, adieu, au revoir, visage and 22 more...
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Not quite love
prolix, pleonastic, senescence, autochthonous, loup, pronk, onomatopoeia, magisterial, rixatrix, esurient, blowsabella, crapulence and 69 more...
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"K-M" words
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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words i want to know
fatidic, quotidian, somnambulism, shibboleth, loup, littoral, kowtow, Priam, effluvium, attacca, esurient, hieratic and 20 more...
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ruzuzu "1. To leap; spring.
2. To melt; give way: applied to frost when it melts suddenly.
3. To leap over; leap from.
–noun
4. An obsolete variant of loop.
5. A light silk mask or half-mask worn at a masquerade.
6. A sort of grapple used in ancient times by the defenders of a fortress to seize and lift a battering-ram and thus prevent its action."
- Century Dictionary
Aug 20, 2010