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Lisieux

Lisieux proper noun: a commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

Proper noun

Lisieux

  1. A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
  2. A community in the Rural Municipality of Willow Bunch, No. 42, Saskatchewan, Canada, named after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

Origin of Lisieux

From French Lisieux, from Latin Lexoviī, from Proto-Celtic *lexsowiyos (“slanted, crippled”) via Gaulish.

Questions about Lisieux

What does Lisieux mean?
Lisieux means a commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
What part of speech is Lisieux?
Lisieux is a proper noun.

Words near Lisieux in the dictionary

  1. lisi
  2. lisianthus
  3. lisianthuses
  4. Lisiecki
  5. Lisieckis
  6. Lisieux
  7. lisinopril
  8. Lisis
  9. lisitsynite
  10. Lisivka
  11. LISK

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