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- noun Plural form of
louer .
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Examples
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The Seretines are a debonaire people, and suche louers of quietnesse, that they shonne to entremedle with any other people.
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Written in the lustie moneth of May in our Palace, where many a million of louers true haue habitation,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the end, recouering force, he discoursed in minde this wicked opinion, wherwith foolish and wilfull fleshly louers doe blason and displaye the honour and chastitie of Ladies, when they make their vaunte that there is no woman, be she neuer so chaste, continente, or honest, but in the ende yeldeth, if she be throughly pursued.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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[Sidenote: The harlot - tes lesson, to her louers.] of vices, who so serueth a harlot, thei must learne this lesson.
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But what meane I to alledge and remember the number of louers, being so infinite as they be?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Gianetta with face al blushing, aunswered: “Madame, I haue no nede therof, and much more vnsemely for so poore a damosell as I am, to meditate or thincke vpon louers, which am banished from my frendes and kinsfolke, remaining in seruice as I doe.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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The comforte of louers made and compyled by Steuen Hawes somtyme grome of the honourable chambre of our late souerayne lorde kynge Henry [the] seuenth (whose soule god pardon).
The cõforte of louers The Comfort of Lovers Stephen Hawes
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How impudentlie doe thei set forthe the Goddes, to bee louers of women, and their adulterous luste: and how thei haue transformed theim selues, into diuers shapes of beastes and foules, to followe after beastly luste.
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Numerous flowers are called Bachelor's Buttons, including daisies, globe flowers, pyrethrums, and different kinds of ranunculi, but here we have the "original and true;" probably it originated in some ancient English garden, as Gerarde says, "It groweth in the gardens of herbarists & louers of strange plants, whereof we have good plentie, but it groweth not wild anywhere."
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But while these twoo poore passionate louers thought they had attayned the toppe of all felicitie, and had inioyed with full saile the fauours of the litle God Cupide, Fortune desirous to departe them, for the last messe of the feast prepared so bitter
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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