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Definition of Genappes
1. genappe [n] - See also: genappe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genappes
Literary usage of Genappes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1817)
"The Duke of Wellington retreats—Is pursued by the French—Skirmish at genappes.—The
British arrive on the Field of Waterloo, and bivouac for the Night. ..."
2. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"This ferocity set the seal on the disaster ; the desperate rout passed through
genappes, passed through Quatre Bras, passed through Sombreffe, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"The road to and through the village of genappes having been cleared of all ...
With the single exception, however, of the affair at genappes with the French ..."
4. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"... worsted heald yarns ; worsted genappes ; mohair and alpaca genappes ; 800
specimens of yarns, used in the manufacture of poplins, &c. ..."
5. Quentin Durward by Walter Scott, Charlotte Mary Yonge (1895)
"Because we know that your Eminence can cany it with a 1 During his residence in
Burgundy, in his father's lifetime, genappes was the usual abode of Louis. ..."
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