lyons

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Definition

  1. noun a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
  2. noun the council in 1274 that effected a temporary reunion of the Greek Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church
  3. 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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