Versailles
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5.9
- proper noun
- /vɛrˈseɪ/
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Versalles
- Thanks for the memory Of gardens at Versailles
- Versailles Treaty
- gardens of Versailles
Oh La La is this Palm Beach or Versailles?
- Oh La La is this Palm Beach or Versailles?
Examples
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The Austrians are in Versailles.
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No, we would love to go to Versailles.
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I dare say, you wish you'd never left Versailles.
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So I sent a messenger to 7th Corps headquarters at Versailles to say that we would be in Paris on the 17th.
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I believe the terms of Versailles are too onerous, too extreme, and could precipitate another war.
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The hint that Claude was engaged elsewhere in the gardens of Versailles should be motivation enough for us to search for him there.
Academic text (2001) -
My hope is that the great artists and thinkers of Europe will come to Versailles, like they have flooded to the salons of Paris, for discussion and debate.
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King Louis XIV of France, himself a guitarist, employed several guitarists at his palace in Versailles, among them Robert DeVisee.
Academic text (1998) -
In January 1919, the Allies met at Versailles Palace outside Paris to write a formal peace treaty.
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Do you remember Sylvie chasing the ducks on the lawn by the Grand Canal here at Versailles?
Compounds
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4.8
A 1919 peace treaty that ended World War I and made Germany give up land and pay money
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6.1
A large royal building near Paris built for King Louis XIV with grand rooms and famous gardens
Surface Forms
Etymology
Versailles probably comes from an old French form of the Latin versare, which means 'to turn' or 'to till' the land and is the same root in words like reverse and version. So the name first described 'land that had been turned' and later became the name of the town.