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lucknow
/ˈlʌknaʊ/
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What does lucknow mean?
proper noun
- A city, district, and division, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh, India.
- A hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland, east of Monifieth (OS grid ref NO5133).
- A community in Huron-Kinloss township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada.
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proper noun
- An unincorporated community in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- A locality in the City of Orange, New South Wales, Australia.
- A locality in the Shire of East Gippsland, eastern Victoria, Australia.
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But it was much hotter than this when the relieving forces marched to Lucknow in the time of the Mutiny.
Everywhere that I went in India I found this noble lavish shrub in full flower, but never wearing such a purple as at Lucknow.
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In their very darkest moment—even where, as at Lucknow, a mere handful of British soldiers, civilians, and women, held out amidst a city and province in arms against them—there was no word of despair, no thought of surrender.
Alexander the Great had his celebrated eunuch, Bagoas, and Nero, his Sporus, etc. Chevers says that the manufacture of eunuchs still takes place in the cities of Delhi, Lucknow, and Rajpootana.