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Lucy Pinder
Lucy Pinder (Lucy Katherine Pinder) is an English glamour model, TV personality, and actress, born 1983 in Winchester, discovered on Bournemouth beach in 2003, known for Nuts and Daily Star covers, Celebrity Big Brother, and film roles.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucile), British couturière 1863-1935, founded Lucile Ltd in London; pioneered mannequin parades, the modern fashion show, and named gowns; Titanic survivor; subject of Wood v. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon.
Lūʻau (food)
Lūʻau is the Hawaiian dish of young taro leaves cooked in coconut cream, the namesake of the Hawaiian feast; related to laulau, it requires long cooking to neutralize calcium oxalate in raw taro leaves.
LuLaRoe
LuLaRoe, an American multilevel-marketing apparel company founded in Corona, California by Mark and DeAnne Stidham, sells leggings and clothing through independent retailers; known for its rapid rise, $4.75 million Washington pyramid-scheme settlement, and LuLaRich documentary.
LuLu Group International
LuLu Group International (LuLu Group, Lulu International) is an Abu Dhabi-headquartered multinational retail conglomerate founded by M.A. Yusuff Ali, operating LuLu Hypermarkets, malls, hotels, and exchange services across the GCC, India, and beyond, with Lulu Retail listed on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange since 2024.
Lumpia
Lumpia (Hokkien loon pia) is a Southeast Asian family of fresh and fried spring rolls, especially Filipino lumpiang shanghai and sariwa and Indonesian lumpia semarang, derived from Fujianese spring-pancake traditions.
Lunapark Robland
Lunapark Robland (Wesołe Miasteczko Robland) is a Polish family travelling funfair from Leszno with 52 years of experience, a summer site in Ustronie Morskie, 30 m Ferris wheels, Booster and Mega Drop rides, and a 1970 Schwarzkopf Jet Star coaster.
Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival (春节)， Tết, or Seollal, is the new-year festival of East Asia's lunisolar calendars, starting on the first new moon of the lunar year, dated between January 21 and February 20, and celebrated by over a billion people.
Lunch
Lunch is the midday meal, historically the day's main meal until industrialization made it quick and separate; shaped US school lunch policy from 1894 penny lunches and the 1946 National School Lunch Act to workplace lunch-skipping trends.
Lunch meat
Lunch meat, also called cold cuts, luncheon meats, or deli meats, is precooked or cured sliced meat for sandwiches. Covers nitrite curing, USDA storage times, WHO Group 1 cancer classification, and health evidence.
Lungi
Lungi: a sarong-type lower garment of South Asia, from Hindi/Urdu lungi (Persian origin), worn wrapped or as a sewn tube from waist to ankle across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar (longyi).
Lungo
Lungo (caffè lungo, café allongé): a long espresso, same 7–9 g dose and 9 bar pressure as a standard shot but roughly double the water, yielding 50–60 mL, more bitter, slightly more caffeine; distinct from an Americano.
Lutefisk
Lutefisk (Swedish lutfisk, Finnish lipeäkala) is a Nordic Christmas dish of air-dried cod soaked in lye and rehydrated, giving mild flavor and gelatinous texture; first described by Olaus Magnus in 1555 and popular in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Lux (soap)
Lux (soap): Unilever's global beauty soap brand, begun as Lux Flakes in 1900, launched as Lux Toilet Soap in 1925, sold in over 100 countries, famed for filmstar endorsements.
Lydia Hearst
Lydia Hearst (Lydia Marie Hearst-Shaw, born 1984) is an American model and actress, daughter of Patty Hearst, discovered by Steven Meisel for the April 2004 Vogue Italia cover, later a horror-film actress married to Chris Hardwick.
Lynn Hung
Lynn Hung (熊黛林, Xiong Dai Lin) is a Chinese model and actress born in Nanjing, based in Hong Kong, known for playing Ip Man's wife Cheung Wing-sing in the Ip Man films and for a 2002 China Best Professional Fashion Model award.
Lynsi Snyder
Lynsi Snyder (Lynsi Lavelle Snyder-Ellingson), granddaughter of In-N-Out founders Harry and Esther Snyder, is owner and president of the chain since 2010, full owner since 2017, worth about $7.3 billion in 2025.
Lyocell
Lyocell, best known under the Tencel brand, is a regenerated cellulose fiber made by NMMO solvent spinning with closed-loop solvent recovery, developed by Courtaulds and distinguished from viscose by avoiding carbon disulfide chemistry.
Lyons silk
Lyons silk (la soierie lyonnaise) is the silk-weaving industry of Lyon, France, established in 1536, home of the canut weavers, the Canut revolts, and the Jacquard loom of 1801.
M. A. Yusuff Ali
M. A. Yusuff Ali (Yusuff Ali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader), born 1955 in Nattika, Kerala, is the Indian-born chairman and managing director of LuLu Group International and chairman of Lulu Retail, the largest pan-GCC retailer, which listed on the Abu Dhabi exchange in 2024.
M&M's
M&M's, also styled M&Ms, are candy-shell-coated chocolate buttons made by Mars, introduced in 1941 in Newark, New Jersey by Forrest Mars Sr. and Bruce Murrie, first sold to the U.S. military, publicly launched in 1945, and famous for the slogan "melts in your mouth, not in your hands."
MAC Cosmetics
MAC Cosmetics (Make-up Art Cosmetics), professional makeup brand founded 1984 in Toronto by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo, Estée Lauder-owned since 1994, VIVA GLAM charity, sold in 120+ countries.
Mac Tonight
Mac Tonight is a fictional McDonald's advertising character introduced in 1986 to promote dinnertime business, a lounge singer with a crescent moon head, tuxedo, and piano.
Macaron
Macaron: French almond, egg-white, and sugar confection (macaron de Nancy, Parisian sandwich macaron); distinct from the coconut macaroon; Rabelais 1552, Nancy 1793, Ladurée filling.
Macaroni (fashion)
Macaroni (fashion): 18th-century English hyper-fashionable men, c. 1760-1780, named for pasta from the Grand Tour; wore habit à la française, tall wigs, and were satirized in Darly macaroni prints.
Macaroni and cheese
Macaroni and cheese, a pasta-and-cheese dish dating to medieval Italian and English cookery, was popularized in America by Thomas Jefferson and James Hemings and industrialized by Kraft's 1937 boxed dinner.
Macaroon
Macaroon: a dense drop cookie of whipped egg whites, sugar, and shredded coconut or ground almonds; distinct from the French macaron; flourless, kosher for Passover, from Italian maccarone.
Maceration (wine)
Maceration (wine), or skin contact, is the soaking of grape skins, seeds, and stems in juice or wine to extract color, tannins, and aroma; central to red wine, key to rosé and orange wine, with variants like cold soak and carbonic maceration.
Machine embroidery
Machine embroidery is the process of decorating fabric with thread using an embroidery machine, most often a computerized machine that follows a digitized design file to place stitches without a human guiding the needle.
Machine quilting
Machine quilting is the practice of stitching a quilt's top, batting, and backing together with a sewing machine rather than by hand, on a domestic machine or a longarm.