Lexicographical Neighbors of Lauras
Literary usage of Lauras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Monasticism from the Fourth to the Ninth Centuries of the by Isaac Gregory Smith (1892)
"lauras. THE institution of lauras was the connecting link between the hermitage
and the monastery, in the later and more ordinary use of that word. ..."
2. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"The cistus or rock-rose is the shrub from which gum-lab- danum was collected in
the Islands of Candia and Cyprus. buy (lauras nobilis), Ephedra, Clematis, ..."
3. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1848)
"... distance one from the "other, like the ancient lauras of Palestine, in which
they passed the six days of the week, but assembled together on Sundays. ..."
4. The London Journal of Botany by William Jackson Hooker (1842)
"The specific name of lauras bullata was given by Burchell. Histoire Physique,
Politique et Naturelle, de file de Cuba. ..."