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lausanne

/loʊˈzæn/

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What does lausanne mean?

proper noun

  1. A municipality and city, the capital of Vaud canton, in western Switzerland, in which French is the main language.
  2. A district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Capital: Lausanne

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/loʊˈzæn/

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“When we were coming home from Lausanne my uncle took us to hear the great organ at Freiberg, and it made me sob.”
George EliotMiddlemarchProject Gutenberg ebook #145
I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheusProject Gutenberg ebook #84
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Blanche found Lausanne most horrid after Baden, for whose delights she languished.
Henry JamesConfidenceProject Gutenberg ebook #178
The Council of State of the canton of Vaud having offered prizes for essays on the question of taxation, previously discussed at a congress held at Lausanne, Proudhon entered the ranks and carried off the first prize.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
In the thirteenth century a Bishop of Lausanne, finding that the eels in Lake Leman troubled the fishermen, attempted to remove the difficulty by exorcism, and two centuries later one of his successors excommunicated all the May-bugs in the diocese.
Andrew Dickson WhiteHistory of the Warfare of Science with Theology in ChristendomProject Gutenberg ebook #505