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Bayonne

[ bey-yohn ba-yawn ]

noun

  1. a seaport in NE New Jersey.
  2. a seaport in SW France, near the Bay of Biscay.


Bayonne

/ bajɔn /

noun

  1. a port in SW France: a commercial centre for the Basque region. Pop: 40 078 (1999)


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We had to leave the Sud Express at Bayonne and took a hard-benched local to St-Jean, a place that Hemingway had greatly enjoyed.

And whether the Bayonne Bridge project will be completed on time.

A new conscription secured the forty thousand men for Bayonne, and General Clarke was ordered to fortify the frontier.

But the events of Bayonne had been productive of greater alarm to the house of Austria than to any other power.

Napoleon, reaching Bayonne on November third, had it announced that there were between three and four hundred thousand!

Anyhow, I would just as soon be in prison as walking about the streets of Bayonne.

The last time, if I remember rightly, you escaped from Bayonne in a boat.

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