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caen
/kæn/
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What does caen mean?
proper noun
- A city in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
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IPA pronunciation
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This eminent arcaeologist was born at Caen in Normandy, but educated at Eton and at Oxford.
They really are a very ancient Norman family of the generalship of Caen.
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'Poor Brummell, dead, in misery and idiotcy, at Caen!
In his boyhood he obtained a tolerable education at the grammar school of his native town; after which he determined to improve himself by study at the University of Caen, in Normandy.
By-and-by, the priests came creeping in with prayers and candles; and a good knight, named Herluin, undertook (which no one else would do) to convey the body to Caen, in Normandy, in order that it might be buried in St. Stephen’s church there, which the Conqueror had founded.