Lorca

[lawr-kuh, lawr-kah]

noun

1. García Lorca.

2. a city in SE Spain.

Lorca

¹

/ ˈlɔrka /

noun

1. a town in SE Spain, on the Guadalentín River. Pop: 82 511 (2003 est)

Lorca

²

/ ˈlɔrka /

noun

1. Federico García (feðeˈriko ɡarˈθia). 1898–1936, Spanish poet and dramatist. His poetry, such as Romancero gitano (1928), shows his debt to Andalusian folk poetry. His plays include the trilogy Bodas de sangre (1933), Yerma (1934), and La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)

Example Sentences

She dies as she is about to go onstage in the Lorca play “Mariana Pineda,” about the heroine of an earlier Spanish revolution.

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A top government minister, Josué Alejandro Lorca, said in 2021 that oil spills were “not a big deal because, historically, all oil companies have had them.”

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“In Spain,” García Lorca once wrote, “the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

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The troupe began life in New York City, in 1983, as Spanish Dance Arts Company, led by Roberto Lorca, a choreographer from California.

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I once came across him stretched out on the floor of a bookstore in Portland, Ore., with a Spanish dictionary in one hand and the complete works of Federico García Lorca in the other.

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