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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A hill in southern England near Hastings. The battle fought here in 1066, in which William the Conqueror defeated Harold II, is known as the Battle of Hastings.
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Examples
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All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called Senlac, now called (in remembrance of them) Battle.
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And we went onward until we came to the village that men call Senlac, where the long hill ridge ends and sinks sharply into the valley of the little river Asten, and there we thought that a heron or mallard would lie in the reedy meadows below the place.
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All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called Senlac, now called (in remembrance of them) Battle.
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Down -- which men call Senlac -- and the Battle of Hastings.
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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All night the armies lay encamped before each other, in a part of the country then called Senlac, now called (in remembrance of them) Battle.
A Child's History of England Charles Dickens 1841
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[256] The battle-field of Hastings seems to have been called Senlac, before the Conquest, Sanguelac after it.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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[256] The battle-field of Hastings seems to have been called Senlac, before the Conquest, Sanguelac after it.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"A Saxon peasant," said De Graville, "told me that the ground was called Senlac [256] or Sanglac, or some such name, in their musicless jargon."
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The next project was at Senlac and Burnett unfortunately not on the City web site so far as I can see a neglected intersection where what instigated change was the support of city.
The Road Ahead: Learning from Toronto « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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The next project was at Senlac and Burnett unfortunately not on the City web site so far as I can see a neglected intersection where what instigated change was the support of city.
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