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Lares

Community in western Puerto Rico, 27 km/17 mi northeast of Mayagüez; population (1990) 5,600. A coffee-growing centre in the 19th century, it is now a summer resort.

It was the scene, on 23 September 1868, of the beginning of the nationalist uprising called the Grito de Lares (the ‘Shout of Lares’), a touchstone for supporters of Puerto Rican independence.
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I said he was right there - never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
Those who know the English Colonies abroad know that we carry with us us our pride, pills, prejudices, Harvey-sauces, cayenne-peppers, and other Lares, making a little Britain wherever we settle down.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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