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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A town of southwest France at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is noted for its Roman Catholic shrine marking the site where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to Saint Bernadette in 1858.

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  • proper noun A town in the French Pyrenees, and site of a large Catholic pilgrimage
  • proper noun A female given name, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.

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Examples

  • AIR FRANCE TO LOURDES On a trip to Lourdes, France, this weekend, Pope Benedict XVI is set to fly local.

    Reflector - Latest Headlines from The Daily Reflector 2008

  • AIR FRANCE TO LOURDES On a trip to Lourdes, France, this weekend, Pope Benedict XVI is set to fly local.

    Rocky Mount Telegram - Business 2008

  • LOURDES (FRANCE): People must accept death at "hour chosen by God," Pope Benedict XVI told ailing pilgrims in an anti-euthanasia message at Lourdes, the shrine that draws the desperate, sick and dying.

    The Times of India 2008

  • See the brilliant Sylvie Testud in Lourdes, a lovely film about isolation and community, in which a wheelchair-bound woman pretends to greater faith for access to her local church congregation.

    A Guru of Gardening Practices « PubliCola 2010

  • To paraphrase someone: why is it that in Lourdes one can find piles of crutches, but never a glass eye or a prosthetic limb?

    Approaches Determine Outcomes 2009

  • This year ten thousand people were registered for the Pilgrimage National and more than thirty thousand people attended the various ceremonies in Lourdes on the Assumption Day.

    Lourdes : Pèlerinage National 2009

  • Modern medicine can take care of so many physical ills that Lourdes is becoming obsolete.

    About This Site 2009

  • It was the prayer intention I had entrusted to you in Lourdes, on the feast of Christ the King 2008.

    Response of SSPX Superior General to the Lifting of the Excommunications 2009

  • The one I liked best was about a wee girl called Bernadette, who lived in a place called Lourdes, which is where the name of our school and our church came from.

    The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

  • Modern medicine can take care of so many physical ills that Lourdes is becoming obsolete.

    Faith Healing in the Technological Era 2007

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