Usually means: Appear sullen, dark, or threatening.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lour: Merriam-Webster
  2. lour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lour, lour: Wordnik
  7. lour: Wiktionary
  8. lour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lour: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lour, lour: Dictionary.com
  12. lour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Lour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Lour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lour: Rhymezone
  17. Lour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lour: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. lour: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lour: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. lour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lour: Legal dictionary

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  1. lour: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lour: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. lour: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lour: Idioms
  2. lour: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lour: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
▸ noun:  A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance.

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turn down, lower, scowl, glaum, glump, glower, pout, glout, make a lip, sigh, more...

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navy, dark green, dark brown, dark blue, burgundy, mahogany, charcoal, more...

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first, canadian, early, other, late, european, american, recent, last, saint, second

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Similar:
turn down, lower, scowl, glaum, glump, glower, pout, glout, make a lip, sigh, more...

Types:
navy, dark green, dark brown, dark blue, burgundy, mahogany, charcoal, more...

Adjectives:
first, canadian, early, other, late, european, american, recent, last, saint, second

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     pewter,     gunmetal,     smoke, more...



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