Abbeville
Americannoun
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a town in N France, on the Somme River: site of Paleolithic artifacts.
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a city in S Louisiana.
noun
Example Sentences
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Republican Gov. Jeff Landry laid out details at an event Tuesday in the parish seat of Abbeville.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Abbeville police said on Facebook that officers took the suspect into custody and interviewed him with a parent before taking him to a hospital behavioral health unit.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
In Abbeville, La., the feast has been held each year since 1985.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
My grandparents, Pop and Grammy, lived their entire lives in Abbeville, Miss., on Woodson Ridge, in the northern part of the state just outside of Oxford, where Ole Miss University is located.
From Salon ● May 21, 2022
It was just a great big roofed room and it belonged to a worried gentleman named Horace Abbeville.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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