lully

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun Spanish philosopher (1235-1315)
noun French composer (born in Italy) who was the court composer to Louis XIV and founded the national French opera (1632-1687)

Possibly from laundry, or lily (compare snow (“laundry”) as in snow-rig). Attested as early as c.1661.

"These alchemists," he continued, "Avicenna, Bacon, Lully, Paracelsus, were the true, the only learned men of the day. — A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Jules Verne
"The spectator, having climbed ten steps and left behind him a gateway, reaches a vestibule in which are statues of Lully, Rameau, Gluck, and Handel. — The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
Setting aside "Happy Families" as entirely negligible, and "Happily Ever After" and "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" as qualified successes, the other four stories do achieve more or less what they set out to do, although Mr. Huxley only achieves a personal synthesis of style and substance in "The Death of Lully." — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

Raymond Lully, Ramon Lully

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