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Lutetia

British  
/ luːˈtiːʃə pəˌrɪzɪˈɔːrəm /

noun

  1. an ancient name for Paris 2

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The outlines of this story are familiar, but Ms. Rogoyska sees it anew through the Hotel Lutetia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

Like any modern city, Paris’ early inhabitants raised their own food; the Romans, who called the place Lutetia, coaxed grapes and figs from the Gallic soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

Horses had been taking people around Paris since the Romans called it Lutetia.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023

Marguerite Duras’s “The War,” to relive the time when the Lutetia Hotel welcomed Holocaust survivors returning from the camps.

From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022

I mean, and I hope this phraseology is technically correct, that Lutetia, as I saw her, was the ghost of someone who had once lived.

From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore

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