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Loured vs Louvred - What's the difference?

loured | louvred |

As a verb loured

is (lour).

As an adjective louvred is

an alternative us spelling of louvered ; the only spelling of this word in uk english.

loured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lour)
  • Anagrams

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    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;
  • * '>citation
  • * '>citation
  • * 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.

    louvred

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • An alternative US spelling of louvered ; the only spelling of this word in UK English.