Lorraine

[ luh-reyn, law-, loh-; French law-ren ]

/ ləˈreɪn, lɔ-, loʊ-; French lɔˈrɛn /

noun

Also Lor·rain. ClaudeClaude Gelée,1600–82, French painter.

a medieval kingdom in W Europe along the Moselle, Meuse, and Rhine rivers.

a region in NE France, once included in this kingdom: a former province. Compare Alsace-Lorraine.

a female given name.

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Ed described himself as a demonologist, while Lorraine, who is 87, calls herself a trance medium.

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That while Lena Younger may not have seen herself as revolutionary, Lorraine Hansberry certainly did.

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Kate Mulgrew and Lorraine Toussaint tell the behind-the-scenes story about how they nailed the brilliant scene.

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Seeing Kate Mulgrew and Lorraine Toussaint go head-to-head, two scenery-chewing forces of nature, is a real pleasure to watch.

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Lorraine enters the room and puts a frozen cocktail on the coffee table.

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The greater part of the basin belongs to Prussia, the rest to Lorraine.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 |Various
With seventy thousand men, the Duke of Lorraine commenced the siege of this capital, so renowned in the melancholy annals of war.

The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power |John S. C. Abbott
All members of the Sixth are appointed monitresses, and Lorraine Forrester is head of the school.

The Head Girl at the Gables |Angela Brazil
He questioned Lorraine carefully as to the various occasions on which she had seen the suspected foreigner.

The Head Girl at the Gables |Angela Brazil
They galloped up to the door; he slipped from his horse, swung Lorraine to the ground, and sprang up the low steps.

Lorraine |Robert W. Chambers

British Dictionary definitions for lorraine

Lorraine

/ (lɒˈreɪn, French lɔrɛn) /

noun

a region and former province of E France; ceded to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian war and regained by France in 1919; rich iron-ore deposits German name: Lothringen

Kingdom of Lorraine an early medieval kingdom on the Meuse, Moselle, and Rhine rivers: later a duchy

a former duchy in E France, once the S half of this kingdom

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