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▪ I. † loure Obs. [a. F. loure, an old name for the musette or bagpipe, also a tune adapted to that instrument.] ? An air suited to the bagpipe.
1706P. Siris Art Dancing 50 Quadruple-Time is made use of in slow Airs, and the Tunes called Loures. 1724Explic. For. Words Mus. 42 Loure, is the name of a French Dance, or the Tune thereunto belonging, always in Triple Time, and the Movement, or Time, very Slow and Grave. 1811in Busby Dict. Mus. ▪ II. loure, lourey obs. ff. lower v., lory. |