leigh
A meadowA meadow.
» Leigh and Laurie will do makeup.
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1 senses(archaic)A meadow.
- English film actress (1913-1967)
Examples
2 sentencesLeigh and Laurie will do makeup.
Leigh will go to the shopping centre with Laurie.
Origin
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“cleaFrom Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”) from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”). Akin to Old Frisian lāch (“meadow”), Old Saxon lōh (“forest, grove”) (Middle Dutch loo (“forest, thicket”); Dutch -lo (suffix forming place names)), Old High German lōh (“covered clearing, low bushes”), Old Norse ló (“clearing, meadow”). More at Waterloo.
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