Sedan
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French, from Medieval Latin Sedensi.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Sedan
- A commune of the Ardennes department, France, notable as the site of two major battles between France and Germany.
- 1908–1910, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, Howards End, New York, N.Y., London: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons […], published 1910, →OCLC:
- A hint of the truth broke on him after Sedan, when he saw the dyed moustaches of Napoleon going grey; another when he entered Paris, and saw the smashed windows of the Tuileries.
- A rural town in South Australia, 100 kilometres east of Adelaide.
- An unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Appanoose County, Iowa, United States.
- A small city, the county seat of Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States. Named after the Battle of Sedan.
- A tiny city in Pope County, Minnesota. USA.
- A census-designated place in Gallatin County, Montana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Scioto County, Ohio, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Kiowa County, Oklahoma, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, United States.
References
[edit]- Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France : étymologie de 35000 noms de lieux, 4 volumes, Genève, Droz, 1990-1998, Genève, Librairie Droz, 1998
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