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longe

American  
[luhnj, lonj] / lʌndʒ, lɒndʒ /

noun

  1. a long rope used to guide a horse during training or exercise.


verb (used with object)

longed, longeing
  1. to train or exercise (a horse) by use of a longe.

longe British  
/ lʌndʒ, lɒndʒ /

noun

  1. an older variant of lunge 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of longe

< French, Old French: noun use of longe (adj.) < Latin longa, feminine of longus long 1

Example Sentences

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De Longe had set up desks in quartets and placed nameplates on each one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2025

My friend Jean De Longe, who teaches first graders at a Palisades school that burned down, told me one of her students, whose family lost their house, was especially upset about losing his stuffies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

All three were working extra security jobs at the 45 Norte Bar and Longe when they were alerted about a possible robbery.

From Fox News • Dec. 13, 2021

In Franklin-Hampshire Juvenile Court, Sharon Velazquez, 17, and Ashley Longe, 18, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal harassment.

From Reuters • May 5, 2011

They are at present in the hands of the Rev. Robert Longe at Coddenham Vicarage, Suffolk, where they have been for the last hundred years.

From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Parry, Edward Abbott

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