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• Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence (noun)
  1. the council in 1431-1439 that concentrated on the elimination of heresies and on reforms within the Roman Catholic Church
• Florence Nightingale (noun)
  1. 1820-1910 english nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War
• Florence fennel (noun)
  1. aromatic bulbous stem base eaten cooked or raw in salads
  2. grown especially for its edible aromatic bulbous stem base
• Nightingale, Florence
  1. (1820-1910) a British nurse who set up a hospital for soldiers in Turkey during the CRIMEAN WAR . She was called the 'Lady with the Lamp', because she walked around the hospital in the evenings with a lamp to check that everything was in order. She set up a school for nurses, making NURSING (= the job of being a nurse) into a real profession.
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