Synonyms:
Lyon, Lyons
Meaning: a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon
Usage examples
FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, 1871.
FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, October, 1871.
FORT LYON, COLORADO TERRITORY, December, 1871.
As you know, Fort Lyon is fifty miles from Kit Carson, and we came all that distance in a funny looking stage coach called a "jerkey," and a good name for it, too, for at times it seesawed back and forth and then sideways, in an awful breakneck way.
I drove out from Manila to the home of Mr. Lyon, who is a regular Burbank. He located on some of the worst soil to be found and undertook to demonstrate that anything that will grow on any spot on the earth will grow there and he practically succeeded.