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Lorette

lɔˈrɛt
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Lorette
    In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) lorette
    In French usage, a member of the demi-monde. A lorette differs from a grisette only in living in a more showy style, and doing no work, being entirely supported by her admirers.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Lorette
    lō-ret′ a showy strumpet.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr.

Usage in the news

Lorette , William E Delmar- William E Lorette , 66, died saturday, October 20, 2012. spotlightnews.com

He was the son of the late Robert and Gladys Lorette . spotlightnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Vis. Image and Signal Processing. 2002. Plamondon, R. and G. Lorette, Automatic signature verification and writer identification: The state of the art. Pattern Recognition, 1989 22(2): p. 107-131. Abuhaiba, I.S., Offline Signature Verification Using Graph Matching.
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Usage in literature

The valley of the Lys is to the north of the Lorette ridge. "The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12)"

Notre Dame de Lorette, French struggle near, 324, 325. "1914" by John French, Viscount of Ypres

That's why he let Lorette go. "This Crowded Earth" by Robert Bloch

Ouaouaoua now turned down the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette hastening his speed. "A Royal Prisoner" by Pierre Souvestre

The valley of the Lys is to the north of the Lorette ridge. "The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII)" by Various

Lorettes, grisettes and paid mistresses seldom have children. "The Sexual Question" by August Forel

Be off and prowl around Notre Dame de Lorette. "The Exploits of Juve" by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain

We were entering what had been the village of Ablain, and before us rose the famous heights of Mont de Lorette. "With the French in France and Salonika" by Richard Harding Davis

A few of the Hurons escaped to Quebec, and settled at the mission of Lorette. "The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History" by Various

He started just before six, after kissing his wife, and went and took a cab at the Place Notre Dame de Lorette. "The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 6" by Guy de Maupassant