Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
loop . - noun A light silk mask or half-mask worn at a masquerade.
- noun A sort of grapple used in ancient times by the defenders of a fortress to seize and lift a battering-ram and thus prevent its action.
- To leap; spring.
- To melt; give way: applied to frost when it melts suddenly.
- To leap over; leap from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Iron Works) See 1st
loop .
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Examples
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Using voodoo, sorcerers purportedly can transform themselves into werewolves known as loup garou and cause fatal accidents and illnesses.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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Using voodoo, sorcerers purportedly can transform themselves into werewolves known as loup garou and cause fatal accidents and illnesses.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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Using voodoo, sorcerers purportedly can transform themselves into werewolves known as loup garou and cause fatal accidents and illnesses.
Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007
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Constantly in flux with the seasons, it stars fresh seafood such as loup de mer, turbot and daurade flown in from the Mediterranean daily, along with the best ingredients from that part of the world.
Gadling 2008
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An idiosyncratic favourite was Le temps du loup. b9n10nt says:
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Here, along with a rather pink-lipped John the Baptist, we have a couple of waterfowl, a cat, two pretty human-looking rabbits, "le loup tenant le brebis" and, at the lower right, what's purported to be a fox but looks to me more like a lamb floating in the grass.
Carolyn Vega: The ABCs of an Unknown Duchemin Carolyn Vega 2011
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Nice to see the colourful patch of “mufliers”/“gueules de loup” ( 'snapdragons') on the far right of the photo.
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Here, along with a rather pink-lipped John the Baptist, we have a couple of waterfowl, a cat, two pretty human-looking rabbits, "le loup tenant le brebis" and, at the lower right, what's purported to be a fox but looks to me more like a lamb floating in the grass.
Carolyn Vega: The ABCs of an Unknown Duchemin Carolyn Vega 2011
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Pear bellinis were passed during cocktail hour, and the fashion talk continued during a dinner of organic chicken and loup de mer and chocolate panna cotta.
Great Clothes, Great Cause Adrienne Gaffney 2012
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Fritz knows a terrible secret, and only he can act upon it, for Fritz had learned that the headquarters had not been randomly named, as Hitler himself had chosen the designation … chosen it because the Fuhrer himself was a lycanthrope, a ravenous loup garou.
We Love You! 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word loup
"1. To leap; spring.
2. To melt; give way: applied to frost when it melts suddenly.
3. To leap over; leap from.
–noun
4. An obsolete variant of loop.
5. A light silk mask or half-mask worn at a masquerade.
6. A sort of grapple used in ancient times by the defenders of a fortress to seize and lift a battering-ram and thus prevent its action."
- Century Dictionary
August 20, 2010