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lait

Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. A marine gadoid food fish of Europe ( Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack.

  2. The American pollock; the coalfish.

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Etymology 1 n. lightning; flash of lightning; a flash. Etymology 2

alt. (context ambitransitive UK dialectal English) To seek; search for; inquire. vb. (context ambitransitive UK dialectal English) To seek; search for; inquire.

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Lait

Lait may refer to:

  • Jack Lait (1883–1954), American journalist
  • Jacqui Lait (born 1947), British Conservative politician
  • Liban Lait, a Lebanese dairy farm

Usage examples of "lait".

Paris un saumon de sa pecherie, un gigot de ses agneaux de lait, des artichauts de son potager, des fleurs de ses serres.

Je le pris dans ma poche et le portai a la maison, ou une goutte de lait le ranima.

ANOTHER PIECE OF IT Mercie jolie vache qui fait Bon lait pour mon dejeuner Tous les matins tous les soirs Mon pain je mange, ton lait je boire.

Gisquette, la fontaine jetait par trois bouches, vin, lait et hypocras, dont buvait qui voulait.

Le pain et le lait constituent une alimentation beaucoup plus profitable que le pain seul.

Indy and Belecamus both ordered fresh oysters and pommes frites, and Conrad ordered another cafe au lait.

They too had their cafe au lait and their buttered rolls, determined by Sir Claude's asking her if she could with that light aid wait till the hour of dejeuner.

As Indy sat down, the waiter appeared and they ordered cups of cafe au lait.

There was another man with him, a very tall young man with a dark cafe au lait skin whom Hob had met sometime before at a party.

I suppose you admire a man with the complexion of a cochon de lait.

And off the child had gone without a word spoken, and Miss Carl had taken Father Mattingly out for the first time into the glass garden room for cafe au lait at the wicker table.

When the waiter walked over, Indy and Belecamus both ordered fresh oysters and pommes frites, and Conrad ordered another cafe au lait.