Loured vs Toured - What's the difference?
loured | toured |
(lour)
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
* 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
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To frown; to look sullen.
* (rfdate) John Dryden:
(tour)
A journey through a particular building, estate, country, etc.
A guided visit to a particular place, or virtual place.
A journey through a given list of places, such as by an entertainer performing concerts.
A trip taken to another country in which several matches are played.
(military) A tour of duty.
(obsolete) A going round; a circuit.
* Milton
(obsolete) A turn; a revolution.
As verbs the difference between loured and toured
is that loured is (lour) while toured is (tour).loured
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* *lour
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(en verb)- And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
- If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
- To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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- But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.
toured
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*tour
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(wikipedia tour)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tour, tourn, from the verb torner, tourner.Noun
(en noun)- The bird of Jove stooped from his airy tour .
- the tours of the heavenly bodies
- (Blackmore)
