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Sorel vs Lorel - What's the difference?

sorel | lorel |

As nouns the difference between sorel and lorel

is that sorel is (zoology) a young buck in the third year while lorel is a good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.

sorel

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology) A young buck in the third year.
  • A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

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    lorel

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A good-for-nothing fellow; a vagabond; losel.
  • *1810 , Alexander Chalmers, The works of the English poets :
    • 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.
  • *1988 , Stephen Jay Greenblatt, Shakespearean Negotiations :
    • 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 [...]
  • *2010 , Kent Cartwright, A Companion to Tudor Literature :
    • 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.
    (Webster 1913)