Leiria

/ leiˈriə /

noun

1. a city in central Portugal: site of the first printing press in Portugal (1466). Pop: 119 870 (2001)

Example Sentences

Before Leiria the rear guards had to fight strongly, to enable the guns to quit the town before the French entered it.

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Thick weather favoured him, and Ney assembled a large force near Leiria, as if to advance against the British position.

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Mr. Young is an Englishman, who married a Portuguese lady in Leiria, and resided for several years in that town.

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So well did the horses perform their work, that it was still daylight when they reached the gates of Leiria.

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