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Lourdes

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

noun

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

Lourdes British  
/ lurd /

noun

  1. 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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