Lais or Laïs may refer to one of the following:
Places
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Lais, Indonesia, a district in the
Musi Banyuasin Regency
Musi Banyuasin Regency is a regency of South Sumatra province, in Indonesia. Originally much larger, it was reduced by about 45% of its former area on 10 April 2002 by the splitting off of most of its eastern and northeastern districts to form the ...
in South Sumatra Province, Indonesia
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Lais River in
Arjeplog Municipality
Arjeplog Municipality (, ; ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Arjeplog.
The area, which now is Arjeplog Municipality, used to be a single parish (Swedish: ''socken''), which was made into a munic ...
, Sweden
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Lais (barony), a former barony and castle near Tartu, Estonia
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Dan (biblical city), Latin name for Laish, an earlier Biblical name for the city of Dan
People
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Lais of Corinth (fl. 425 BC), a courtesan
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Lais of Hyccara (fl. 385 BC), a courtesan
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Laïs (physician) (fl. 1st/2nd century BC), an ancient Greek midwife and physician
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Laís (footballer), Brazilian footballer
Other
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Laïs (band), a musical group
* Plural for
Lai (poetic form)
A ''lai'' (or ''lay lyrique'', "lyric lay", to distinguish it from a '' lai breton'') is a lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. ''Lais'' were mainly composed in France a ...
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Breton lai
A Breton lai, also known as a narrative lay or simply a lay, is a form of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically 600–1000 lines), rhymed tales of love and chivalry, often involving supernatural and fairy-wor ...
s, a form of British medieval romance literature
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''Lais'' of Marie de France
* Genus of flowering plants, now considered to be ''
Hippeastrum
''Hippeastrum'' () is a genus of 116 species, and over 600 Hybrid (biology), hybrids and cultivars, of perennial plant, perennial, herbaceous plant, herbaceous and bulbous plants, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, ...
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