Vocabulary : Loresman to Loricata

Loresman : An instructor.
Loreto : Alt. of nuns
Lorette : In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.
Lorettine : One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States. ;; One of an order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the western United States. ;; A Loreto nun.
Loretto : Alt. of nuns

Lorgnette : An opera glass ;; elaborate double eyeglasses.
Lori : Same as Lory.
Lorica : A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like. ;; Lute for protecting vessels from the fire. ;; The protective case or shell of an infusorian or rotifer.
Loricae : of Lorica
Loricata : A suborder of edentates, covered with bony plates, including the armadillos. ;; The crocodilia.

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