Lucerne
[lu:'sә:n]
Definition
(n.) See Lucern, the plant.
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Definition
n. a species of Medick a valuable forage-plant.
Edited by Ethelred
Examples
- She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In 1245 the men of Schwyz burnt the castle of New Habsburg which had been set up near Lucerne to overawe them; its ruins are still to be seen there. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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