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Soleure

American  
[saw-lœr] / sɔˈlœr /

noun

  1. French name of Solothurn.


Soleure British  
/ sɔlœr /

noun

  1. the French name for Solothurn

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At Soleure I saw nothing very remarkable, except a dog with a very large goitre on his neck, a sight which I never had witnessed before, during the long time that I wandered through Switzerland.

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick

About this time Felix Hemmerlin complains of the countless souls seduced to heresy by the emissaries who, every year, come from Bohemia to Berne and Soleure.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Strasburg offered to contribute six hundred florins, Berne and Soleure seven hundred, Basel four hundred, while Colmar, Schlestadt, Obernai, and Kaisersberg together hoped to raise another four hundred.

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth

In 1579 Geneva was included in the alliance concluded by France with Bern and Soleure, while in 1584 Z�rich joined Bern in another alliance with Geneva.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various

This book must not go on for ever; therefore I cannot say very much about Soleure, although there is a great deal to be said about it.

From The Path to Rome by Belloc, Hilaire