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US
/ˌɫusəˈteɪniə/
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NOUN
- ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain
How To Use Lusitania In A Sentence
- “Bonderro” is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
- Valentine felt sick with dread, thinking of what his life would be like if he was welcomed on Lusitania as the most shameworthy man in human history. Speaker for the Dead
- That is why every sailor in the world, outside the doggeries of Hamburg, felt his calling spat upon and his personal pride injured by the sinking of the _Lusitania_ -- by a sailor. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
- Although Vindex was defeated, Nero's suicide and the support of Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus and the praetorians encouraged Galba to march on Rome, accompanied by Otho, governor of Lusitania.
- More than a thousand people died when the Lusitania was torpedoed.
- The Irish government has tried to keep Bemis from plundering the remains, most effectively by passing a law that protects the Lusitania and the area around it as a heritage site.
- Wearing her new white boots and her cream light silk coat, she had stood, with Mr Ricciardi, on the promenade deck of the Lusitania... THE GOLDEN LION
- Bonderro" is a corruption of the Lusitanianized imbundeiro, the calabash, or adansonia (digitata?): the other baobab is called nkondo, probably the Aliconda and Elicandy of Battel and old travellers, who describe the water-tanks hollowed in its huge trunk, and the cloth made from the bark fibre. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
- Wearing her new white boots and her cream light silk coat, she had stood, with Mr Ricciardi, on the promenade deck of the Lusitania... THE GOLDEN LION
- The quality of the boxes themselves also suffered as material became scarce - a consignment of brass was lost with the Lusitania, and as brass was needed for the direct war effort, later boxes were of inferior alloy.