Definition of "loor" [loor]

• Foot-rot. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Following strict order, every tenth song is a poetically expressed Cantiga de loor, arousing the most heartfelt religious feelings, and counterbalancing the sometimes trivial, amusing and exuberant stories of the Cantigas de miragre."
• "The value that Alfonso himself placed on the Cantigas can be seen in his last will and testament, devised shortly before his death: Furthermore we command that all books of the Cantares de loor de Santa Maria be kept in the church where our body shall be buried, and that they be sung on the festive days of the Virgin Mary."
• "El duque poseía, sin duda, una de las capillas nobiliarias más importantes de la Península, comparable únicamente a la que el Condestable de Castilla, don Miguel Lucas de Iranzo († 1473), mantuvo en su señorial corte de Jaén, como dan prueba de ello las célebres crónicas de la época y los “Versos fechos en loor del Condestable” (1466) …."