• Laughtre

    Full definition of laughtre

    Noun

    laughtre

    (usually uncountable; plural laughtres)
    1. Obsolete spelling of laughter
      • 1892 CE, Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, George Bell and Sons; Volume III, Book IV, page #209:She was right swich to seen in hire visage,As is that wight that men on beere bynde ;Hire face, like of Paradis the ymage,Was al ychaunged in another kynde ;The pleye, the laughtre men was wonte to fyndOn hire, and ek hire joyes everychoneBen fled, and thus lith now Cryseyde allone.
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