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- noun Alternative spelling of
lurdane .
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Examples
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"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
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Avoid, thou lousy lurden and precious stinking slave,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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"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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