Lourdes is only a mass of dull, lead-colored roofs, heaped up below the highway.
A Tour Through The Pyrenees|Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
Did the mournful ceremonies of Ash-Wednesday help to incline a certain lady and a young girl of Lourdes to one of these solutions?
Catholic World, Vol. XI, April 1870-September 1870|Various
We thanked him, and went out into the streets of Lourdes to see what could be done.
The Happy Golfer|Henry Leach
British Dictionary definitions for Lourdes
Lourdes
/ (Frenchlurd) /
noun
a town in SW France: a leading place of pilgrimage for Roman Catholics after a peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858. Pop: 15 203 (1999)