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  • proper noun Province of Apulia, Italy.
  • proper noun Town and capital of Lecce.

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Examples

  • Tommasso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a gay man living in Rome with his boyfriend, comes home to a beautiful Southern town called Lecce and finds it difficult, to say the least, to come out to his conservative family.

    Washington Square News Matt Margini 2010

  • Tommasso (Riccardo Scamarcio), a gay man living in Rome with his boyfriend, comes home to a beautiful Southern town called Lecce and finds it difficult, to say the least, to come out to his conservative family.

    Washington Square News Matt Margini 2010

  • Britain that so-called Lecce framework could weaken competitiveness of Square Mile

    WN.com - Articles related to Premier League - Paper round: Chelsea in for Vieira 2009

  • Britain that so-called Lecce framework could weaken competitiveness of Square Mile

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Britain that so-called Lecce framework could weaken competitiveness of Square Mile Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, is considering how to revamp UK too.

    WN.com - Business News 2009

  • Afhes alfo fell, during the late erup - tion, at the very extremity of the province of Lecce, which is fill! fardier off; at Martino, near Taranto,

    The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798

  • So we're guessing there are plenty more viewing-card takers for the Milan derby--when Berlusconi's team plays its sworn rivals, Inter--rather than when the likes of Roma or Lazio thump a lesser team such as Lecce or Treviso.

    Italy's Uneven Playing Field 2006

  • Keeping up the eclectic mix this year was minimalist Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi, now in his second year as head of the 30-strong festival orchestra, and international guest musicians, as the La Notte della Taranta expanded its programme of warm-up concerts for the first time to the nearby baroque town of Lecce.

    Record numbers flock to Puglia festival to dance to Italy's dervish beat 2011

  • In 2004, researchers led by physicist Ignazio Ciufolini at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, used NASA and Italian satellites to measure relativity's gravitational effects with about the same accuracy as Gravity Probe B, the scientists said.

    Good Thinking, Einstein Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Udinese beat Lecce 2-1 with goals from the newly signed Michele Pazienza and Antonio Di Natale.

    Serie A round-up: Milan waste chance to go top after Lazio defeat 2012

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