Webster's 1913 Dictionary
LORETO NUNS; LORETTO NUNS
LORETO NUNS; LORETTO NUNS Lo *ret "o, or Lo *ret "to, nuns. [From Loreto, a city in Italy famous for its Holy House, said to be that in which Jesus lived, brought by angels from Nazareth. ] (R. C. Ch. )
Defn: Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls.
New American Oxford Dictionary
Loreto
Loreto |ləˈrɛtəʊ | a town in eastern Italy, near the Adriatic coast to the south of Ancona; pop. 12,285 (2008 ). It is the site of the ‘Holy House ’, said to be the home of the Virgin Mary and to have been brought from Nazareth by angels in 1295.
Oxford Dictionary
Loreto
Loreto |ləˈrɛtəʊ | a town in eastern Italy, near the Adriatic coast to the south of Ancona; pop. 12,285 (2008 ). It is the site of the ‘Holy House ’, said to be the home of the Virgin Mary and to have been brought from Nazareth by angels in 1295.
Duden Dictionary
Loreto
Lo re to Substantiv, Neutrum |Lor e to |Wallfahrtsort in Italien
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