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lourdes

/lʊɹd(z)/

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What does lourdes mean?

proper noun

  1. A town and commune of Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, site of a large Catholic pilgrimage.
  2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  3. A municipality in São Paulo state, Brazil.
More meanings (3)

proper noun

  1. A municipality and town in Norte de Santander department, Colombia.
  2. A settlement in Alto Paraguay department, Paraguay.
  3. A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.

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IPA pronunciation

/lʊɹd(z)/

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Understanding this, you may find it more easy to credit the fact that cripples do sometimes throw away their crutches in the grotto of Lourdes.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
They all went together up to the quaint little Gothic church of Our Lady of Lourdes, gleaming all brown and yellow with paint in the sun’s glare.
Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short StoriesProject Gutenberg ebook #160
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They had visited the grottoes of Lourdes together.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138
He was another convict for life, who had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135