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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southeast France west of Nice. Probably founded in Roman times, it was an independent republic in the 1100s. The city has long been noted for its perfume industry.
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Examples
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Side trips from there are great ... like a ferry to Ile St. Marguerite from Cannes, the perfume studio in Grasse, Eze, St. Paul de Vence .... oh use Nice as your home base!
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010
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Godeau immediately left "the perfumed wench," as he called Grasse, and chose to live and work among his one-time enemies of Vence.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose
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An almost drugged air floated across the lake, a rogue cloud that had drifted down the hillside, carrying the scent of office-freshener from a factory in Grasse.
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Grasse, which is pleasantly situated on the ascent of a hill in
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So he literally -- he went up from there from Cannes to Grasse and then from Grasse, which is the -- at the bottom of the foothills, he then marched steadily up into the Sorbonne to Castillon and all the way to Digne and then ultimate -- ultimately to Grenoble and Lyon.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1997
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Thus we passed through the city of Leptis and Hadrumetum and reached the place called Grasse, three hundred and fifty stades distant from Carthage.
History of the Wars, Books III and IV (of 8) The Vandalic War Procopius
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Half an hour away are the beaches of Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël and Saint Aygulf, while Saint-Tropez, Grasse, Cannes and the spectacular Gorge du Verdon are all about an hour's drive away.
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It's an amazing thing to be able to hop on the train and be on the fabulous beaches in Cannes in 20 minutes or the world's perfume capitol: Grasse in 45.
Katie Beck: Pardon My French: Our Heroine Returns "Home" Katie Beck 2011
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In the summer of 2010 I went with the group on a perfume odyssey through Grasse, France.
Mary Orlin: A Scentsational Weekend With Sniffapalooza Mary Orlin 2011
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Half an hour away are the beaches of Fréjus, Saint-Raphaël and Saint Aygulf, while Saint-Tropez, Grasse, Cannes and the spectacular Gorge du Verdon are all about an hour's drive away.
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