Lexicographical Neighbors of Loupen
Literary usage of Loupen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bride of Lammermoor: And, A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott (1878)
"I tell you it is the picture of old Malise of Ravenswood, and he is as like it
as if he had loupen out of the canvas; and it is up in the old Baron's hall ..."
2. A Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: Supplement by John Jamieson (1825)
"To ТАК up a loupen-STEEK, to remedy an evil, a stocking, ... I hae nothing to
say, but to help to talc up the loupen-steek in your stocking wi' as much ..."
3. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1880)
"He has loupen on the bonny black, He stirr'd him \vi' the spur right sairly ; But,
... He has loupen on the bonny grey, He rade the right gate and the ready ..."
4. Scandinavian Loan-words in Middle English by Erik Björkman (1900)
"55) Scand. ou, au has become ou in loup and lous (< ME loupen, lous; ou in this
dialect, among other ME sources, also corresponds to ME ow < 0. ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1803)
"He stirr'd him wi' the spur right sairly; ' He has loupen on the bonnie gray, He
rade the right gate and the ready; I trow he would neither stint nor stay, ..."
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