Lourdes
[loo rd, loo rdz; French loord]
- a city in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures.
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Examples from the Web for lourdes
Contemporary Examples
Photographs by Lourdes Almeida explore the meaning of the style in which a rebozo is worn.
Would it be possible to limit entry to Lourdes or to San Giovanni Rotondo?
Both Madonna and, recently, her 15-year-old daughter Lourdes Leon advocate for the legalization of gay marriage in United States.
Perhaps the biggest difference for Lourdes on the red carpet Monday was what was missing: Madonna herself.
In recognition of his disabilities, Mr. Dury had originally wanted to call it Live at Lourdes.
Historical Examples
The Lourdes of theology begins where the Lourdes of bartering ends.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
And a wholesome corrective is the Sunday service after the sights of Lourdes.
In the Heart of VosgesMatilda Betham-Edwards
This is the seventh year that I am going to Lourdes without despairing of cure.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Moreover, it is certain that it was Bernadette herself who wished to leave Lourdes.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Well, she got to Lourdes, and dipped her hand into the piscina.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
Lourdes
- a town in SW France: a leading place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics after a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858. Pop: 15 203 (1999)
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