Obs. [a. F. loure, an old name for the musette or bagpipe, also a tune adapted to that instrument.] ? An air suited to the bagpipe.
1706. P. Siris, Art Dancing, 50. Quadruple-Time is made use of in slow Airs, and the Tunes called Loures.
1724. Explic. For. Words Mus., 42. Loure, is the name of a French Dance, or the Tune thereunto belonging, always in Triple Time, and the Movement, or Time, very Slow and Grave.
1811. in Busby, Dict. Mus.
