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n. - Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936).

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  • The desk, said to have belonged to the martyred poet Federico Garc í a Lorca, is passed along one by one among Ms. Krauss's characters.
  • And her fiance, Prince Lorca, is a surprisingly strong player who’s made me fonder of him than I want to be.
  • Well, that might be a bit alarmist but I wonder just how much the name "Lorca" actually means to the man on the Clapham omnibus.
  • Thus he asserts that "'Lorca' is a complex author-function", whose "own vision of the gypsies is already that of an orientalist".
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