Leiria
/ (Portuguese leiˈriə) /
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noun
a city in central Portugal: site of the first printing press in Portugal (1466). Pop: 119 870 (2001)
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How to use Leiria in a sentence
Before Leiria the rear guards had to fight strongly, to enable the guns to quit the town before the French entered it.
Under Wellington's Command|G. A. HentyThick weather favoured him, and Ney assembled a large force near Leiria, as if to advance against the British position.
Under Wellington's Command|G. A. HentyMr. Young is an Englishman, who married a Portuguese lady in Leiria, and resided for several years in that town.
So well did the horses perform their work, that it was still daylight when they reached the gates of Leiria.
The Prime Minister|W.H.G. Kingston