Lorel vs Lored - What's the difference?
lorel | lored |
A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
*1810 , Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets :
*1988 , Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations :
*2010 , Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature :
(chiefly, in combination) Having a lore, of a certain type, usually a color.
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As a noun lorel
is a good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.As an adjective lored is
having a lore, of a certain type, usually a color.lorel
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- But lurco, I apprehend, signifies only a glutton, which falls very short of our idea of a lorel ; and besides I do not believe that the word was ever sufficiently common in Latin to give rise to a derivative in English.
- I refer to the sinister glossaries appended to sixteenth-century accounts of criminals and vagabonds. "Here I set before the good reader the lewd, lousy language of these loitering lusks and lazy lorels ," announces Thomas Harman as he introduces [...]
- Just as a simian – be it a monkey or a marmoset, an ape or cercopithecus – may play the scholar or abuse the book, so the lorel can only look upon the Bible or play-act as lord.
