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Definition of Laisses
1. laisse [n] - See also: laisse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laisses
Literary usage of Laisses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spirit of American Government: A Study of the Constitution: Its Origin by James Allen Smith (1907)
"In fact the doctrine of laisses faire no longer expresses the generally accepted
view of state functions, but merely the selfish view of that relatively ..."
2. An Introduction to Old Provençal Versification by Frank M. Chambers (1985)
"He uses rime, not assonance, and he groups his lines into laisses, as we have seen.
These laisses give Sainte Foy something of an epic tone, ..."
3. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair (1915)
"And on the slips we read the words " laisses-passer." My British Red Cross lady
had no ... I had only my sixteenth part in the " laisses-passer" of the ..."
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