Meaning & use
Loury
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Dark, overcast, and threatening rain, used especially to describe weather.
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A loury sky hung over the harbor all morning.
The farmers eyed the loury clouds nervously before the harvest.
A note on using this word
"Loury" is a variant spelling of "lowery," an older word for threatening, cloudy weather that survives mainly in literary and dialect use.
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