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Guer•ni•ca
Pronunciation: (gwâr'ni-ku; Sp. ger-nē'kä), [key]—
n.
1. Basque town in northern Spain: bombed and destroyed 1937 by German planes helping the insurgents in the Spanish Civil War.
2. (
italics) a painting (1937) by Pablo Picasso.
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