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Definition of Reims

1. Noun. A city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II.

Definition of Reims

1. Proper noun. A city in the Champagne-Ardenne region of France. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Reims

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Before the Law of Congregations of 1901 was put into effect, there were in the Diocese of Reims Capuchins, Jesuits, Sulpicians, and various orders of ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"1885); IDEM, Etudes sur la faculté de théologie de l'université de Reims (Reims, ... Reims, SYNODS OF.—The first synod said to have been held at Reims by ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Joan's father was present at the ceremony, and had his lodgings at Reims in the "Hôtel de ... Joan wrote from Reims (17 July) a letter to Philip the Good, ..."

4. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"I mean Reims cathedral, the grandest work of Gothic art. ... The architect of Reims preserved in his facade the scheme of Notre Dame, which had not, ..."

5. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"The loss of Reims itself would not have been alarming from a military point of view, as the city had been under fire for so long that it had ceased to have ..."

6. A History of Architecture by Russell Sturgis, Arthur Lincoln Frothingham (1915)
"I mean Reims cathedral, the grandest work of Gothic art. ... The architect of Reims preserved in his facade the scheme of Notre Dame, which had not, ..."

7. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"Nothing now prevented Jeanne from carrying out her promise to crown Charles VII. at Reims—it would take Bedford weeks to raise a new army, and the way to ..."

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