Abbeville

[ ab-ee-vil; French abuh-veel ]

noun

1. a town in N France, on the Somme River: site of Paleolithic artifacts.
2. a city in S Louisiana.

Abbeville

/ abəvil /

noun

1. a town in N France: brewing, sugar-refining, and carpet industries. Pop: 24 567 (1999)

Example Sentences

Members of the Abbeville, S.C., Bixby family killed two police over a land dispute in 2003.

From The Daily Beast

A single cart, and a waggon, were all the vehicles that I saw between Boulogne and Abbeville.

From Project Gutenberg

Abbeville, like all the other principal towns through which I passed, bore melancholy marks of the Revolution.

From Project Gutenberg

The road was truly excellent, though hilly, and indeed so continued till within a few miles of Abbeville.

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The manufactures are of the same kind as those at Abbeville.

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I had a most unpleasant ride to Abbeville, the heat of the day being extreme, and the road totally without any shelter.

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