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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A former spelling of lucre.

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Examples

  • But some of the pepyll were sedycyows scysmatyckes, and did puplyshe them for dysgysyd ipocryts, full of desseyvable gylle and covytous hydolatrie of luker.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 Various 1841

  • Sometimes people don't just pick up the phone & ring Crimestoppers out of some sense of duty, but they will do it for filthy luker.

    200 Weeks 2009

  • {{skwirrlgrrl}} between leeving pleh werk at 2AM and waking up at 8AM for teh workers who spent teh whole day beeting up teh bafroom ai was a zombie luker on fridegg!

    Uhm… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • And I thinke verilie, that in one region of all the worlde againe, are not halfe so many straungers as in Italie; specially of gentilmen, whose resorte thither is principallie under pretence of studie ... all kyndes of vertue maie there be learned: and therfore are those places accordyngly furnisshed: not of suche students alone, as moste commonly are brought up in our universitees (meane mens children set to schole in hope to live upon hyred learnyng) but for the more parte of noble mens sonnes, and of the best gentilmen: that studie more for knowledge and pleasure than for curiositee or luker: ...

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

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