Definitions

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

  • A city of northwest Italy west of Florence. On the site of an ancient Ligurian settlement and a Roman colony, it received its city charter in the 1100s and was later an independent republic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A cotton fabric printed in imitation of an East Indian shawl.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun a Province of Tuscany, Italy.
  • proper noun City and capital of Lucca.

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Examples

  • I arrive in Lucca by bus in the early evening and sit to wait for Stefano, my first couch surf host, on the bench outside the closed visitors office.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • I arrive in Lucca by bus in the early evening and sit to wait for Stefano, my first couch surf host, on the bench outside the closed visitors office.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • I soon decide to skip Rome altogether - they get too many requests, I figure, and I cant deal with the competition -- and soon am corresponding with a Stefano in Lucca, a Sergio in Milan, and am putting out feelers in half a dozen other towns and villages across Italy and into France.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • It had to have been Trattoria Gigi in Lucca, Italy.

    Giveaway: Au Revoir to All That by Michael Steinberger | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • I soon decide to skip Rome altogether - they get too many requests, I figure, and I cant deal with the competition -- and soon am corresponding with a Stefano in Lucca, a Sergio in Milan, and am putting out feelers in half a dozen other towns and villages across Italy and into France.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • I soon decide to skip Rome altogether - they get too many requests, I figure, and I cant deal with the competition -- and soon am corresponding with a Stefano in Lucca, a Sergio in Milan, and am putting out feelers in half a dozen other towns and villages across Italy and into France.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • I arrive in Lucca by bus in the early evening and sit to wait for Stefano, my first couch surf host, on the bench outside the closed visitors office.

    Danna Harman: Couch Surfing and Me Danna Harman 2010

  • Jimmy Counter found her in Lucca and kidnapped her all over again.

    Defined By What We Don't Have Anymore 2007

  • Jimmy Counter found her in Lucca and kidnapped her all over again.

    August 2007 2007

  • The walled town of Lucca is a moderate sized city-within-a-city located not too far from Pisa.

    TBTAM Does Italy, Part 6 - Vinci and Lucca aka TBTAM 2007

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