Lyme Regis
Proper noun
Meaning
Lyme Regis
A coastal town in Dorset, England.
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Examples
Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.
Almost half the children born in Britain throughout the 19th century died before the age of 5, and in the crowded living conditions of early 19th century Lyme Regis, infant deaths from diseases like smallpox and measles were particularly common.
After Joseph told her to look between the cliffs at Lyme Regis and Charmouth, Mary found the skeleton—convert long in all—a few months later.
It’s over a mile long, with a great café, dipping down from the South West Coastal path en route to Lyme Regis.
Blue plaque where Mary Anning was born and had her first fossil shop, now the Lyme Regis Museum 1842 sketch of Anning's house Richard and Molly had ten children.
The beach at Lyme Regis.