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Lewes , town (1991 pop. 14,499) and district, East Sussex, SE England. The county seat of East Sussex, Lewes is a farm market with light manufactures. St. Pancras priory was founded in the town in the 11th cent.; its ruins remain. In 1264, Lewes was the scene of a victory by Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester, over Henry III.

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Lewes E. Sussex. (to) Læwe early 10th cent., c.960, Lewes 1086 (DB). From the rare OE word lǣw ‘wound, incision’, here used in a topographical sense ‘gap’. The spelling with plural -s in DB and other post-Conquest sources is due to Anglo-Norman influence.

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Lewes, UK, USA 1. UK (England): formerly Læwe from the Old English lw ‘incision’, here meaning a ‘gap’ between hills.2. USA (Delaware): founded in 1631 as a Dutch settlement called Zwaanendael, it was renamed in about 1685 after the Lewes in Sussex (now East Sussex), England, since it was the chief town in Sussex County.

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