loured
loured is the simple past and past participle of lour.
Meaning of lour
Verb
lour (third-person singular simple present lours, present participle louring, simple past and past participle loured)
- To frown; to look sullen.
- [...] Juno took her place:
But ſullen Diſcontent ſat lowring on her Face.1700, [John] Dryden, “Homer’s Ilias”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, book I, page 215
- [...] Juno took her place:
- To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- Now is the winter of our diſcontent,
Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke:
And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe,
In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC...
- Now is the winter of our diſcontent,
Questions about loured
- What is loured the simple past and past participle of?
- Loured is the simple past and past participle of lour.
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