• alacke(obsolete)
• 'lack(contraction)

FromMiddle Englishalacke,alagge, probably fromah +‎lack.

• IPA^(key): /əˈlæk/

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alack

1. An expression ofsorrow ormourning.
   • c.1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii],page133:

     On a day,alack the day: / Loue, whoſe Month is euery May, / Spied a bloſſome paſſing faire, / Playing in the wanton ayre:

   • 1843,Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton,The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.:George Routledge and Sons […],→OCLC:

     Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!

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