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/ˈlɔɪə/, /lwɑː/, U.S. /ˈlɔɪ(ə)r/, /ləˈwɑr/, /lwɑr/ The Fat Dormouse ( Myoxus glis).
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 76 The greater dormouse, which Mr. Buffon calls the Loir.
1801 H. M. Williams Sketches Manners French Republic I. xxi. 314 I call them rats, from their almost perfect resemblance to that animal..but their real name is the Loir.
1884 Evang. Mag. Mar. 117 The Loir, or fat dormouse of France.
1885 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 116 The two large European species, the Loir (Myoxus glis) and the Lerot (Eliomys nitela).
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