Crossword-Solution: CLOU 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But had he not refused her the wherewithal to remember him--the pearls she needed as the clou of her dear collection, the great relic among relics? “Would you trust me with your studs?” she asked him, in a voice that could be heard throughout the quadrangle, with a smile that was for him alone.

His life has three divisions--thirty years at Florence, nearly twenty years at Milan, then nineteen years of wandering, till he sinks to rest under the protection of Francis the First at the Chateau de Clou.

Francis the First, like Lewis the Twelfth before him, was attracted by the finesse of Leonardo's work; La Gioconda was already in his cabinet, and he offered Leonardo the little Chateau de Clou, with its vineyards and meadows, in the pleasant valley of the Masse, just outside the walls of the town of Amboise, where, especially in the hunting season, the court then frequently resided.

Balin acknowledges that his wildness has been their common bane, and they die, “either locked in either’s arms.” There is nothing in Malory, nor in any other source, so far as I am aware, which suggested to Tennyson the _clou_ of the situation—the use of Guinevere’s crown as a cognisance by Balin.

And besides, was not a boy, a handsome boy, waiting for her, and expecting her? This was the CLOU of the day, the end for which everything was making; yet of such stuff was Laura that she would have felt relieved, could the present moment have been spun out indefinitely.