orlando lasso

Las·so

[lah-soh]
noun
Orlando di [dee] , ( Orlandus Lassus ) 1532–94, Flemish composer.
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lasso (læˈsuː, ˈlæsəʊ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n , pl -sos, -soes
1.  a long rope or thong with a running noose at one end, used (esp in America) for roping horses, cattle, etc; lariat
 
vb , -sos, -soes, -sos, -soes, -soing, -soed
2.  (tr) to catch with or as if with a lasso
 
[C19: from Spanish lazo, ultimately from Latin laqueus noose]
 
las'soer
 
n

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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lasso
1807 (v.); 1808 (n.), Amer.Eng., from Sp. lazo, from L. laqueum (nom. laqueus) "noose, snare" (see lace).
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