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  • noun Alternative spelling of lurdane.

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Examples

  • "Falourdin, a luske, loot, lurden, a lubberlie sloven, heavie sot, lumpish hoydon" (Cotgrave) -- and many other names which can hardly have gratified their original possessors.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Avoid, thou lousy lurden and precious stinking slave,

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • Robin, thou red-headed lurden, how oft must I tell thee not to shoot straight with a quarter-wind blowing across the mark? "

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • Robin, thou red-headed lurden, how oft must I tell thee not to shoot straight with a quarter-wind blowing across the mark? "

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "You rammucky lurden," she was howling, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good - for-nought.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "You rammucky lurden," she was howling, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good - for-nought.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "You rammucky lurden," she was howling, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good - for-nought.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • "You rammucky lurden," she was howling, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good-for-nought.

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • Robin, thou red-headed lurden, how oft must I tell thee not to shoot straight with a quarter-wind blowing across the mark? "

    The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "You rammucky lurden," she was howling, with a blow between each catch of her breath, "you shammocking, yaping, over-long good-for-nought.

    The White Company 1890

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