Lexington

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  1. Origin: after the Boston suburb

    city in NC Ky., in Fayette county, with which it constitutes a metropolitan government () with a pop. of 261,000

  2. Origin: after Robt. Sutton (1661-1723), 2d Baron of Lexington

    suburb of Boston, in E Mass.: pop. 30,000

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  1. The largest city of Kentucky, in the northeast-central part east-southeast of Louisville. A noted center for the raising of thoroughbred horses, it was named in 1775 after the Battle of Lexington. Population: 271,000.
  2. A town of northeast Massachusetts, a residential suburb of Boston. The Battle of Lexington (April 19, 1775) marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Population: 30,200.
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