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Luxor   /lˈəksər/   Listen
Luxor

noun
1.
A city in central Egypt on the east bank of the Nile that is a center for visitors to the ruins of and around Thebes.  Synonym: El-Aksur.






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"Luxor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Italy this winter; therefore, perhaps mother will let me go. I wrote to her this morning. The proposal is to spend part of the time in Italy, and then cross from Naples to Egypt. I love Egypt. We were there some winters ago, at the Winter Palace at Luxor." ...
— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux

... these footfalls. My sensations of them were so keen that my memory retained them. I recognized individuals, not by their faces but by their feet. A solitary tourist met me among the ruins of Luxor; I knew his tread, though months had elapsed, among the thousands on London Bridge. A gypsy family, whom I passed on the Spanish sierras, went under my window in Paris, and I missed the feet of the lad who had been hanged. Ten thieves were marched to the pillory in ...
— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

... impress the other on the memory. Sight burns them into the brain without conscious effort. You can learn more of Egypt and of Egyptian history, culture, hieroglyphics, and language in a few short weeks at Luxor or Sakkarah than in a year at the Louvre and the British Museum. The Tombs of the Kings are worth many papyri. The mere sight of the temples and obelisks and monuments and inscriptions, in the places where their makers originally erected them, gives ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Luxor" :   United Arab Republic, Arab Republic of Egypt, Egypt, El-Aksur, city, urban center, metropolis



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