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Definition of Lorettes
1. lorette [n] - See also: lorette
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lorettes
Literary usage of Lorettes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ins and Outs of Paris: Or, Paris by Day and Night by Julie Granville Marguerittes (1855)
"... des Lions—the other Theatres—the Theatre Frangais—"Une Demoiselle "—"Une
Parisienne "—the Varietes—Los lorettes—Paris Fashions and the Fashion-Plates. ..."
2. The History of Modern Painting by RICHARD. MUTHER (1907)
"He undertook the conduct of a fashion journal, Les Gens du Monde, and began it
with a series of drawings from the life of the jeunesse doree : les lorettes, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"These good friends — and do not shriek, for they shall do you not the slightest
manner of harm — are lorettes. Though certainly not exactly ' exclusive,' ..."
4. The Musical World (1855)
"... his niece—upon the stage the first night, but since then behind the scenes,
to spare the feeling of the lorettes, by whom the theatre is frequented. ..."
5. Paris in '67: Or, The Great Exposition, Its Side-shows and Excursions by Henry Morford (1867)
"of the well-known and inevitable future. lorettes, of classes far below Anonyma
and Olympia, (who seldom move without the carriage and state of princesses)— ..."
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