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lough

[ lok, lokh ]

noun

, Irish English.
  1. a lake.
  2. a partially landlocked or protected bay; a narrow arm of the sea.


lough

/ lɒk; lɒx /

noun

  1. See lake
    an Irish word for lake 1
  2. a long narrow bay or arm of the sea in Ireland


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lough1

1505–15; Anglo-Irish spelling of Irish loch lake; compare Middle English low, lough ( e ), logh ( e ), Old English (Northumbrian) lūh < British Celtic *lux- (> Welsh llwch (obsolete) lake, Old Breton luh, Breton louc’h ), apparently < early Irish; loch

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lough1

C14: from Irish loch lake

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Example Sentences

Winterfell is in fact Castle Ward, which may be more familiar as Winterfell, overlooks the beautiful Strangford Lough.

Cattle and kine were taken furtively or openly to these very hills and vales where Jim Lough now lived in quietude and peace.

Those who had passed on told only fragments, and Jim Lough, neither verified nor denied.

In these things, Jim Lough made enemies as well as friends, but cared as little for the one as he appreciated the other.

If anyone calls me Miss Lough, I pay no attention, thinking they mean someone else.

Hearing the outcry, Adine Lough came out of the house, and down the graveled way.

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