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Lucern   Listen
noun
Lucern  n.  (Obs.)
1.
A sort of hunting dog; perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. "My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine."
2.
An animal whose fur was formerly much in request (by some supposed to be the lynx). (Written also lusern and luzern) "The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase."





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"Lucern" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the mountain-chain. This natural defence is crowned by a fortress, which forms a very picturesque feature in the landscape. Formerly the town was completely surrounded by walls, curtained on the hillside, reminding one of Lucern's "coronal of towers." In the "brave days of old" the trade-guilds were severally allotted their forts for the defence of the town—no holiday task for volunteers, as in our "right little, ...
— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse


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