lorett

name

1. A surname.

   “Referee.—John Lorett, Baltimore City College.”

   “Police Inspector Dwyer at midnight last night took possession of the Belmont Hotel, 116 West Forty-fifth Street, after arresting two persons there, Rose Barrick, the proprietor, a colored woman, and William Lorett, the head waiter.”

   “Surviving are his widow, the former Hilda Lorett; […]”

2. A female given name, variant of Lauretta.

   “The work is dangerous and the pay trifling, $500 a month and free living quarters, which Mr. Lee shares with Lorett Vergara, a formerly homeless woman who now works for the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.”

   “Detectives first approached Mr. Leibovici at his Queens home late Monday night after Lorett S. Vigon, his daughter’s mother, filed an aggravated harassment complaint against him.”

   “DCI Lorett Spierenburg, who is heading the investigation, said officers were keeping an “open mind”.”