Chapter Lose Caste to Lovelace of L by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Louis (St.) is usually represented as holding the Saviour's crown of thorns and the cross, sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim's staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.

Louis Dix-huit was nicknamed Des Huîtres, because he was a great gourmand, and especially fond of oysters.

Louisiana U.S. America. So named in compliment to Louis XIV. of France. Originally applied to the French possessions in the Mississippi Valley.

Loup “Le loup sait bien ce que male bête pense ” [male = méchant]. “Un fripon reconnait un fripon au premier coup d'oeil. ” We judge others by ourselves. “Chacun mesure tout à son aune. ” We measure others in our own bushel. The wolf believes that every beast entertains the same wolfish thoughts and desires as it does itself. Plautus expresses the same idea thus “Insanire me aiunt ultro cum ipsi insanrunt; ” and Cicero says, “Malum conscientia suspiciosum facit ”

Louvre [Paris ]. A corruption of Lupara, as it is called in old title-deeds.    Dagobert is said to have built here a hunting-seat, the nucleus of the present magnificent pile of buildings.

“He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it.”
Shakespeare: Henry V, ii. 4.

   Louvre. The tower or turret of a building like a belfry, originally designed for a sort of chimney to let out the smoke. (French, l'ouvert, the opening.)
   Louvre boards in churches. Before chimneys were used, holes were left in the roof, called loovers or leuver holes. From the French l'ouvert (the open boards).

Louvre of St. Petersburg (The). The Hermitage, an imperial museum.

Love (God of). (Anglo-Saxon luf.)
   Camdeo, in Hindu mythology.
   Camadeva, in Persian mythology.
   Cupid, in Roman mythology.
   Eros, in Greek mythology.
   Freya, in Celtic mythology.
   Kama or Cama, in Indian mythology.
(See Bowyer, etc., etc.)
    The family of love. Certain fanatics in the sixteenth century, holding tenets not unlike those of the Anabaptists.
   There is no love lost. Because the persons referred to have no love for each other. What does not exist cannot be lost.

Love-lock A small curl gummed to the temples, sometimes called a beau or bow catcher. When men indulge in a curl in front of their ears, the love-lock is called a bell-rope- i.e. a rope to pull the belles after them. At the latter end of the sixteenth century the love-lock was a long lock of hair hanging in front of the shoulders, curled and decorated with bows and ribbons.

Love-powders or Potions were drugs to excite lust. Once these love-charms were generally believed in; thus, Brabantio accuses Othello of having bewitched Desdemona with “drugs to waken motion;” and Lady Grey was accused of having bewitched Edward IV. “by strange potions and amorous charms.” (Fabian, p. 495.)

Love and Lordship Love and lordship never like fellowship. French, “Amour et seigneurie ne veulent point de campaigne; ” German, “Liebe und herrschaft leiden keine gesellschaft, ” Italian, “Amor e seiguoria non vogliono compagnia (Neither lovers nor princes can brook a rival.)

Love in a Cottage A marriage for love without sufficient means to maintain one's social status. However, “When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.”

Love-in-Idleness One of the numerous names of the pansy or hearts-ease. Originally white, but changed to a purple colour by the fall of Cupid's bolt upon it.

“Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell.
It fell upon a little Western flower,
Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound;
The maidens call it Love-in-idleness.”
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 2.