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Lei   /leɪ/   Listen
Lei

noun
1.
Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.  Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, wreath.






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"Lei" Quotes from Famous Books



... Que maesta divine! Salamon es d'advis, Giugiar de uvostro mino; Vous dis plus bello: E lou dis ben soven De toutoi lei femello, E non ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... or to promenade, if he has money in his pocket, or gaiety in his heart, he must bloom. Over one ear, or both, in the hair, on the head, around the neck, both sexes were passionately fond of this age-old sign of kinship with nature. The lei in Hawaii around the hat or the neck spells the same meaning, but the flood of outsiders has lost Hawaii all but the merest remnant of its ancient ways, while here still persisted customs which a century ...
— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... excitement, Lilolilo, at the rail, who must say last farewells and quip last jokes to many, looked squarely down at me. On his head he wore my ilima lei, which I had made for him and placed there. And into the canoes, to the favoured ones, they on the yacht began tossing their many leis. I had no expectancy of hope . . . And yet I hoped, in a small wistful way that I know did not show in my face, which was ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London

... thin sith. so rueful is thy lot, efter thin wercche lif. 295 after thy wicked life. nu me wule swopen thine flor. Now men will sweep thy floor, and thet flet clensien. and cleanse the dwelling; for hit is heom lothre. for it is the loather to them the thu theron lei[gh]e. that thou liest thereon. heo wulleth mid holiwatere. 300 They will, with holy water, beworpen ec theo paedas. sprinkle eke the vestments, blecsien ham [gh]eorne. cleansing them carefully to burewen ham with the. to bury them with thee; beren ut ...
— The Departing Soul's Address to the Body • Anonymous

... at last got a letter a span long after hoping so much for an answer that I lost patience; and I had good cause to do so before receiving yours at last. The German blockhead having said his say, now the Italian one begins. Lei e piu franca nella lingua italiana di quel che mi ho immaginato. Lei mi dica la cagione perche lei non fu nella commedia che hanno giocata i Cavalieri. Adesso sentiamo sempre una opera titolata Il Ruggiero. ...
— The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, V.1. • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

... dalla enumerazione rettorica del Boccaccio di tutti gli inconvenienti del matrimonio, e dove per altro ei dichiara,—'Certo io non affermo queste cose a Dante essere avvenute, che non lo so; comeche vero sia, che o a simili cose a queste, o ad altro che ne fusse cagione, egli una volta da lei partitosi, che per consolazione de' suoi affanni gli era stata data, mai ne dove ella fusse volle venire, ne sofferse che dove egli fusse ella venisse giammai, con tutto che di piu figliuoli egli insieme con lei fusse parente." Discorso sul Testo, ut sup. ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt

... detto Francese, senza auedercene de la sua ria malitia non retornaua, quando da vostra magnifica Signoria gli era mandato. La morte del detto tristo Francese approuiamo como cosa benfatta. [Sidenote: Edoardo Barton et Mahumed Beg.] Ma al contrario, doue lei ha confiscato la detta naue e mercantia en essa, et fatto sciaui li marinari, como cosa molto contraria a li priuilegij dal Gran Signor quattro anni passati concessi, et da noi confirmati di parte de la Serenissima Magesta d'Ingilterra ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of - The English Nation, Vol. 11 • Richard Hakluyt

... cotal si diventa, Che volgersi da lei per altro aspetto, E impossibil che mai si consenta; Pero che il ben, ch'e del volere obbietto, Tutto s'accoglie in lei, e fuor di quella E difettivo cio che li ...
— The Cell of Self-Knowledge - Seven Early English Mystical Treaties • Various



Words linked to "Lei" :   chaplet, floral arrangement, laurel wreath, bay wreath, laurel, flower arrangement, crown



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