Definition of Loures

1. loure [n] - See also: loure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loures

loup-loup
loupe
louped
loupegarth
loupen
loupes
louping
louping-ill virus
louping ill
loupit
loups
lour
loure
loured
lourenswalsite
loures (current term)
loureth
louri
lourie
lourier
louries
louriest
louring
lourings
louris
lours
loury
lous
louse-borne typhus

Literary usage of Loures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His by Duke of Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1838)
"88th regiment may be collected and sent to loures, as soon as it can be relieved by one battalion of the marines; and I should wish the other battalion of ..."

2. A Handbook for Travellers in Portugal: A Complete Guide for Lisbon, Cintra by John Murray (Firm) (1875)
"loures. 9 kil. Lousa. At about 29 kil. from Lisbon we cross the second of the " Lines. ... At no place beyond loures can any refreshment be obtained. ..."

3. Journal of the Waterloo Campaign: Kept Throughout the Campaign of 1815 by Cavalié Mercer (1870)
"The village of loures,* where we arrived about noon, presented a horrid picture of devastation. A corps of Prussians halted there last night, and, ..."

4. Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of by Arthur Richard Wellesley Wellington (1860)
"... which falls into the Lisbon road in the rear of loures ; this point seems, therefore, worth attention, and indeed it seems very desirable to keep up a ..."

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