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  • proper noun A city in France, the capital of the Rhône-Alpes région.

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  • noun a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
  • noun the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church
  • noun the council of the Western Church in 1245 that excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II and planned a new crusade against the Holy Land

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