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Cluny
[ kloo-nee; French kly-nee ]
noun
- a town in E France, N of Lyons: ruins of a Benedictine abbey.
Cluny
/ ˈkluːnɪ; klyni /
noun
- a town in E central France: reformed Benedictine order founded here in 910; important religious and cultural centre in the Middle Ages. Pop: 4376 (1999)
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Have you ever been to the Musee Cluny to see the Lady with the Unicorn tapestries?
Now, since the card question everything I said or did had the power of annoying Cluny.
“Say nae mair, say nae mair,” said Cluny, and pointed me to a bed of heather in a corner of the Cage.
Certainly it was a mortifying matter for all concerned, and not least for Cluny; the more credit that he took it as he did.
Prudhon was ten years younger than David, and was born at Cluny, the tenth child of a poor stone cutter.
His marriage, on 17th February 1778, with the daughter of the notary of Cluny, became the torment of his life.
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