Ardennes
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- proper noun
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Ardenas
- It's like investigating the Battle of the Bulge where everyone is lost in the middle of the Ardennes Forest.
Examples
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They punched through the Ardennes into France.
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One thousand more American prisoners from the Ardennes... will be arriving over the weekend.
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I took it over the Ardennes.
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Six months ago I was freezing my ass off in the Ardennes.
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The Ministry of War has just released the figures... from our offensive in the Ardennes.
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The 300,000 Germans in the Ardennes Forest caught the Americans by surprise.
Fiction book (1990) -
And then Patton, in a brilliant shift of position, launched an attack from the Ardennes salient to the south, and the Americans began to feel hope.
Fiction book (1990) -
In the Ardennes, the Germans have breached our defenses and are only one hundred miles from Antwerp.
Fiction book (1998) -
In a last desperate attempt to strike back at the Allies, Hitler, against the advice of many of his senior commanders, initiated his ultra-secret Ardennes offensive.
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The Ardennes region is famous for its dense forests and rolling hills.
Compounds
A major World War II battle in December 1944 when German troops launched a surprise attack in the Ardennes
A German surprise attack in December 1944 against Allied forces in the Ardennes, also called the Battle of the Bulge
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ardennes comes from the old name Arduenna, which meant 'high forest'. This is a helpful picture because the Ardennes is a region of wooded hills and high plateaus, so the name still fits the place today.