Lisieux

/ lizjø /

noun

a town in NW France: Roman Catholic pilgrimage centre, for its shrine of St Thérèse, who lived there. Pop: 23 166 (1999)

What she knew of the architectural character of Lisieux half guaranteed the truth of the information.

He informs me that he has just bought a small estate near Lisieux and is going to turn farmer.

Lisieux Cathedral is, with that of Rouen, the least Norman in the province.

See throughout this epistle of Arnulf of Lisieux, Bouquet, p. 230.

Houses are without occupants, fields without workers, wrote a XV-century bishop of Lisieux.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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