Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northern France flowing about 770 km (480 mi) generally northwest to the Bay of the Seine, an inlet of the English Channel, near Le Havre. It has been an important commercial waterway since Roman times and has figured significantly in the histories of Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre.
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- noun A
river of northernFrance that flows throughParis for about 772 km (480 mi) to theEnglish Channel nearLe Havre . - noun A former
department ofFrance , the capital city of which wasParis .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Paris Dog Cemetery, Le Cimetière des chiens d'Asnières-sur-Seine, is thought to be the world's oldest public pet cemetery.
Paris Dog Cemetery The Nag 2009
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Among others, there are postcards of the Palais Idéal, the Hotel of Old Plates in Seine Maritime, France, and Agnes Jones 'Boneyard (see below).
The Places We Make For Ourselves Heather McDougal 2007
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Among others, there are postcards of the Palais Idéal, the Hotel of Old Plates in Seine Maritime, France, and Agnes Jones 'Boneyard (see below).
Archive 2007-12-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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The Seine is full of dace, but they grew cunning during the siege of Paris, and none of them has been caught since, except in nets.
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Thirty years ago, when he began his career, he explains, the Seine was a very dirty river.
The Rise of Big Water Mann, Charles C. 2007
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BUT, the Banks of the Seine is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Archive 2006-02-01 mike247worldwide 2006
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BUT, the Banks of the Seine is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Paris (not Hilton), but... mike247worldwide 2006
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The sky was still white and hard, and the Seine was a nasty gray.
Maigret and the Saturday Caller Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1991
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The Seine was a yellowish flood, carrying along refuse, broken boxes, branches of trees.
Maigret and the Bum Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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From this point the course of the Seine is a complicated winding among _iles_ and _ilots_, which gives it that elongation which makes necessary hours of journeying by boat as against a quarter of the time by the road -- as the crow flies -- to the lower fortifications of
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