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Lourdes

American

[loord, loordz, loord] / lʊərd, lʊərdz, lurd /

noun

a city in SW France: Roman Catholic shrine famed for miraculous cures.

Lourdes British

/ lurd /

noun

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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Supt Armstrong said another occupant of the Volkswagen Golf, a male in his 20s, was removed and brought to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, for treatment of serious non-life-threatening injuries.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2025

Maria de Lourdes Alongi, a voter at the restaurant, needs no convincing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

The chief executive of L.A. city’s housing authority, Lourdes Castro Ramirez, said the agency would need 25 referrals a week, three times what it has historically received, to use its vouchers effectively.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2025

Madonna's Ray Of Light, written after the birth of her daughter Lourdes, eschewed her brash 1980s persona for a more spiritual, psychedelic sound.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

Lourdes is always thinking about the two children she left in Honduras.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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