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Lee Cooper
Lee Cooper is a British denim and lifestyle brand founded in London's East End in 1908 by Morris Cooper as a workwear factory; renamed Lee Cooper after 1945, it became a global licensed jeans, footwear, eyewear, and fragrance brand sold in over 100 countries.
Lefse
Lefse is a Norwegian soft flatbread, best known in its potato form (potetlefse) made of riced potato, flour, butter, and cream, cooked on a griddle (takke). Distinct from crisp flatbrød, it has many regional varieties and is a Norwegian-American holiday staple.
Legal drinking age
Legal drinking age: minimum age to buy or drink alcohol. US MLDA is 21 via the 1984 highway-funding act; global default purchase age is 18; higher ages reduce youth crashes and drinking.
Leggings
Leggings are tight-fitting trousers made of stretchy knit fabric, typically 10 percent or more elastane; the word also covers protective leg coverings worn over ordinary trousers.
Lego
Lego is a line of plastic construction toys and the Danish company behind them, founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in Billund in 1932 and now the world's largest toy manufacturer.
Lego Hero Factory
Lego Hero Factory: buildable robot action figure theme, 2010-2014, successor to Bionicle; introduced the CCBS ball-joint building system in 2011 and released 108 sets across five story arcs before ending in 2014.
Lei (garland)
Lei is the Hawaiian garland of flowers, leaves, shells, seeds, or feathers, brought by Polynesian voyagers, given in the spirit of aloha, worn for rank and ceremony, celebrated on Lei Day since 1928.
Leif Erikson Day
Leif Erikson Day is a U.S. observance on October 9 honoring the Norse explorer credited with reaching North America around 1000 CE. Established by Public Law 88-566 (1964), codified at 36 U.S.C. § 114, it is marked by presidential proclamation, not a federal holiday.
Leigh Bowery
Leigh Bowery (1961–1994), Australian performance artist, costume designer, and club promoter; founder of London's Taboo nightclub, muse of Lucian Freud, collaborator of Michael Clark, subject of the 2025 Tate Modern retrospective Leigh Bowery!.
Leilani Dowding
Leilani Dowding (born 1980, Bournemouth) is an English model, Miss Great Britain 1998 and Miss Universe 1998 contestant, Page 3 glamour model, VH1 Tough Love Miami star, and founder of the Leiluna Collection clothing line.
Lemon & Paeroa
Lemon & Paeroa (L&P) is a New Zealand lemon soft drink created in 1907 from Paeroa mineral spring water and lemon, later made by Grey & Menzies, Innes Tartan, and now Coca-Cola in Auckland, famed for its giant Paeroa bottle statue.
Lemon pig
Lemon pig: a lemon turned into a pig figure with toothpick legs, clove eyes, foil tail, and a coin. A Victorian children's craft, not a real New Year tradition; the luck claim dates to Alcoa's 1971 party book and went viral via Twitter in 2017.
Lemonade
Lemonade is a drink of lemon juice, sugar, and water (or, in Britain, a carbonated lemon soda). Records go to 10th-12th century Egypt (qatarmizat), Paris limonadiers 1676, US temperance era, and pink circus lemonade.
Lenore Tawney
Lenore Tawney (Leonora Agnes Gallagher, 1907–2007), American fiber artist of Coenties Slip, New York; pioneer of sculptural "woven forms," open-warp weaving, Cloud series, collage, and mail art.
Lenskart
Lenskart, formerly Valyoo Technologies, is an Indian eyewear company founded by Peyush Bansal in 2010. It is India's largest eyewear retailer and listed on the stock exchanges in 2025.
Leomie Anderson
Leomie Anderson is a British model, activist, and entrepreneur, scouted at 14 and founder of LAPP (Leomie Anderson the Project the Purpose), known for Victoria's Secret runway appearances and advocacy for representation in fashion.
Leopold Cafe
Leopold Cafe, founded 1871 on Colaba Causeway, Mumbai, by Irani Zoroastrian immigrants and named after Belgium's King Leopold; first target of the 26/11 2008 attacks, reopened within five days, bullet marks preserved.
Leotard
Leotard: a tight-fitting one-piece garment covering the torso but not the legs, worn in dance, gymnastics, and exercise. Named after French trapeze pioneer Jules Léotard, who called it a maillot; entered English vocabulary in 1886.
Les Deux Magots
Les Deux Magots is a historic literary café-restaurant at 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, named for two Chinese statues from its predecessor novelty shop. Founded 1884, owned by the Boulay-Mathivat family since 1914, home of the Prix des Deux Magots (1933, first winner Raymond Queneau) and haunt of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Hemingway.
Let them eat cake
"Let them eat cake" (Qu'ils mangent de la brioche) is a saying misattributed to Marie Antoinette; it appears in Rousseau's Confessions (written 1765, published 1782) as an unnamed princess's remark, with the first attribution to the queen appearing only in 1843.
Let's Eat Dinner Together (같이 먹고 싶다할 때 없다)
Let's Eat Dinner Together (한끼줍쇼) was a JTBC Korean reality variety show (2016–2020, 164 episodes) in which hosts Kang Ho-dong and Lee Kyung-kyu knocked unannounced on doors to share dinner with ordinary families; rebooted in 2025 as One Meal Show.
Levantine cuisine
Levantine cuisine (المطبخ الشامي, Shami cuisine), the shared food tradition of Bilad al-Sham, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine: mezze, olive oil, chickpeas, tahini, za'atar, sumac, kibbe, hummus, falafel, and shawarma, shaped by Ottoman rule and diaspora.
Levi Strauss
Levi Strauss (Löb Strauss, 1829–1902), Bavarian-born Jewish immigrant dry goods merchant of San Francisco; with tailor Jacob Davis held the 1873 riveted-pants patent that created blue jeans and founded Levi Strauss & Co. in 1853.
Levi Strauss & Co.
Levi Strauss & Co. is an American apparel company headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1853 by Levi Strauss, it makes Levi's jeans and sold $6.3 billion in 2025.
Leyla Milani
Leyla Milani (لیلا میلانی), born Leyla Razzaghi in 1982, is an Iranian-Canadian-American model best known as briefcase model number 13 on NBC's Deal or No Deal.
Li-Ning
Li-Ning (李宁) is a Chinese sportswear company founded in 1990 by Olympic gymnast Li Ning, listed in Hong Kong since 2004 (2331.HK). Second-largest Chinese sportswear brand by revenue; 2025 sales RMB 29,598 million; single-brand, multi-category strategy.
Liam Charles
Liam Charles, British baker and TV presenter nicknamed Cake Boy, was the youngest 2017 Great British Bake Off contestant at 19, finishing fifth; now hosts Bake Off: The Professionals, judges Junior Bake Off, and wrote Cheeky Treats and Second Helpings.
Liangzhu jade
Liangzhu jade is the nephrite jade made by the Neolithic Liangzhu culture of the lower Yangtze valley, c. 3300–2250 BCE, best known for its bi discs and cong tubes.
Liberty (department store)
Liberty (Liberty & Co., Liberty London) is a London luxury department store founded by Arthur Lasenby Liberty on 15 May 1875, famed for Tana Lawn printed fabrics and its 1924 mock-Tudor Great Marlborough Street flagship built from warship timber.
Liberty Ross
Liberty Ross (Liberty Lettice Lark Ross, born 1978) is a British model and actress, a 2000s Vogue cover star and face of Burberry and Dior Addict, later an actress, Genetic denim designer, and co-owner of Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace with Usher.