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toulon
/tuːˈlɒn/
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What does toulon mean?
proper noun
- A city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the préfecture of the département of Var, in France.
- A small city, the county seat of Stark County, Illinois, United States.
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/tuːˈlɒn/
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And then that happy moment, that Toulon for which he had so long waited, presents itself to him at last.
In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon.
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The patience with which he had watched Toulon, he spoke of, truly, as a perseverance at sea which had never been surpassed.
The docks looked like one vast knacker's yard of broken-down obsolete ships and wretched old paraphernalia--unfortunately a characteristic of other establishments nearer home than Toulon.
At Toulon, where he found himself without money and without work, he had a scene with the mayor, which he describes in his work on "Justice."