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Lour vs Bour - What's the difference?

lour | bour |

As a verb lour

is to be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.

As a noun bour is

(obsolete) a chamber or a cottage.

lour

English

Alternative forms

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Verb

(en verb)
  • To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • * 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
  • And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
  • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
  • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
  • * {{quote-web, date=2007-03-29 , quotee=Judith , title=Gordon Brown Meets the Ten Year Olds , site=Dale's Diary
  • citation , passage= … the appalling burden of public service inflation-proof pensions that will lour over our children and grandchildren.}}
  • To frown; to look sullen.
  • * (rfdate) John Dryden:
  • But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.

    bour

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A chamber or a cottage.
  • Ful sooty was hir bour, and eek hir halle,
    In which she eet ful many a sclendre meel.
    (Webster 1913) ----