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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Switzerland on the northern shore of Lake Lucerne, an irregularly shaped lake surrounded by mountains. The city developed around a monastery founded in the eighth century.
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- proper noun A
canton ofSwitzerland . - proper noun A city in Switzerland, the capital of the canton of Lucerne.
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Series 8 Dead 12 Injured In Off Road Race In California Mahave Desert Link To Story: www. youtube.com LUCERNE VALLEY, Calif An out-of-control truck plowed into a crowd at a Lucerne
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Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Legend links the name "Lucerne" from the Latin lucerna, meaning "lamp" with an angel who, with light streaming from his fingertips, indicated to eighth-century Benedictine monks the site on which they should build the city's first chapel.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 3 Richard Bangs 2011
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Arabic in its origin, and the term Lucerne has probably been given to it from the Canton Lucerne in Switzerland.
Clovers and How to Grow Them Thomas Shaw 1880
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Bravely, I walked into a luscious-looking fromagerie in Lucerne and proudly asked the fromager for "un morceau de fromage suisse", hoping to buy some emmenthal.
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Sat 10/10/09 3: 33 PM of course my favorite moviegoing experience was in Lucerne, Switzerland, in the choir for FOTR and TTT!!
'Fellowship of the Ring' at Radio City Music Hall: High-class geekery | EW.com 2009
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During a visit to a breathtaking, beautiful and ornate Christian cathedral in Lucerne, Switzerland last week, I was taken aback by the sight of something that seemed completely out of context and out of place – a baleful and evil-looking Illuminati eye staring out over a representation of the crucified Jesus.
Why Does The Illuminati Eye Infest Christian Churches? | Disinformation 2008
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Men's single sculls, women's double sculls: Same process as the previous group, but the U.S. rowers did not qualify in Lucerne and therefore won't be in Athens.
USATODAY.com 2005
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