lyceum
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When someone asked about “pét nat” wines—short for pétillant naturel, a trendy sparkling variety—one young techie pulled faces that would trigger expulsion from a Swiss lyceum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi.
From Time Magazine Archive
They establish the habits of thinking for the majority of the people, for they are the lyceum where all questions are discussed that interest the people.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
The outstanding feature of the lyceum was the report of the critic.
From Revisiting the Earth by James Langdon Hill
Harper of New York, who gave in his remarks a delightful pen portrait of Doctor Holmes, the lyceum lecturer, which we have elsewhere quoted.
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
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