lune

Definition

A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Etymology

From Latin lūna (“moon”).

Example Sentences

• "Why woman, your husband is in his olde Lunes againe: […]"
• "Theſe dangerous, vnſafe Lunes i'th' King, beſhrew them: / He muſt be told on't, and he ſhall[…]"
• "A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land."