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versailles
/vɚˈsaɪ/
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What does versailles mean?
proper noun
- A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
- The Palace of Versailles.
- A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
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proper noun
- A home rule city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
- A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
- (historical) The Treaty of Versailles (1919).
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/vɚˈsaɪ/
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During the three weeks we were there, we visited the Louvre, the Luxembourg, Versailles, and the parts round about.
The Versailles balloon was painted blue, with ornaments of gold, and it presented the form of a richly decorated tent.
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The Treaty of Versailles allows Germany to hold a stock of about half a million shell of different stated calibres.
He told the boy that his mother had quite recovered and gone to Versailles to see about finding him some post at the Court.
He was then enabled to construct a very fine balloon, elaborately decorated and painted, which ascended at Versailles in the presence of the Court.