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1. (humorous) Abbreviation of Lower Arkansas, also in reference to the state of Louisiana.abbreviationalt-ofhumorous

1. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.Examples: "And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas."

1. (obsolete) Used to introduce a statement with emphatic or intensive effect.obsolete

2. (archaic) Expressing surprise, anger. etc.Examples: "La, ma'am, what doth your la'ship think? the girl that your la'ship saw at church on Sunday, whom you thought so handsome; though you would not have thought her so handsome neither, if you had seen her nearer, but to be sure she hath been carried before the justice for being big with child."; "“Oh, la! here come the Richardsons. I had a vast deal more to say to you, but I must not stay away from them any longer.”"; ""La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said."archaic

1. (often ironic) Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).Examples: "Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour."; "By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory."; "(You have to wonder where la Wintour finds the time for all this styling: maybe it's a displacement activity to fill the void left by her failure to get the Democratic party into power?)"ironicnot-comparableoften

1. (Liverpool) lad, kid