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Lassa   /lˈɑsə/   Listen
Lassa

noun
1.
The sacred city of Lamaism; known as the Forbidden City for its former inaccessibility and hostility to strangers.  Synonyms: capital of Tibet, Forbidden City, Lhasa.



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"Lassa" Quotes from Famous Books



... stretch from Suez to Bab-el-mandeb ruling your families and tribes! You olive-grower tending your fruit on fields of Nazareth, Damascus, or lake Tiberias! You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa! You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea! And you of centuries ...
— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman
... Titan, Cujus ad primos Hecate vapores Lassa nocturnae levat ora bigae, Dic sub Aurora positis Sabaeis, Dic sub Occasu positis Iberis, Quique ferventi quatiuntur axe, Quique sub plaustro patiuntur Ursae; Dic ad aeternos, ...
— Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois • George Chapman


Words linked to "Lassa" :   Xizang, Tibet, Sitsang, national capital, Thibet


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