Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A wooded plateau of northern France, southeast Belgium, and northern Luxembourg east and south of the Meuse River. It was the scene of heavy fighting in World War I and World War II, culminating in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 and January 1945.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World Wars I and II.
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- proper noun One of the
départements ofChampagne-Ardenne ,France (INSEE code 08)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a wooded plateau in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II
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Examples
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This region of the Ardennes is wild and wooded, and much more picturesque than I supposed anything in Belgium to be.
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"Ardennes" -- Arden, a forest on the Meuse river between Brussels and
Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson
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This is now known as the Ardennes American Cemetery.
CLICK HERE to read Annette's research on the April 29th, 1944 mission to Berlin. 2004
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In the middle of the month we were packed up in a hurry in a convoy of troop trucks to be shipped south as reinforcements to a regiment outside a different forest, near a town called Ardennes.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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Ambleve; or you may still cling for a little while to the fringe of the Ardennes, which is also the fringe of the industrial country, and explore the valley of the Meuse westward, past Huy and Namur, to Dinant.
Beautiful Europe: Belgium Joseph Ernest Morris
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"Chevalier Lange d'Ardennes" -- and had others printed, simply "Dardennes, junior (du Morbihan)."
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The Ardennes is the northernmost of the four Departments into which the wise men of 1790 divided the ancient province of
France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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He burned his visiting-cards, ornamented with the family crest and his name "Chevalier Lange d'Ardennes" -- and had others printed, simply
Monsieur De Camors — Complete Octave Feuillet 1855
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Reaching Blois and utterly rejecting his mother's attempts to excuse herself and console him, he drags out a miserable time in continual penance and self-neglect, till at last, availing himself of (and rather shabbily if piously tricking) a Saracen page, [71] he succeeds in getting off incognito to the vague "Ardennes," where his sadly ended adventure had begun.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Black D'Ardennes 'eye of mastery in that proud troop was seen,
Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858
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