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Alençon

American  
[a-lahn-sawn, uh-len-suhn, -son] / a lɑ̃ˈsɔ̃, əˈlɛn sən, -sɒn /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Orne, in NW France: lace manufacture.


Alençon British  
/ alɑ̃sɔ̃ /

noun

  1. a town in NW France: early lace-manufacturing centre. Pop: 28 935 (1999)

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After a few emails and phone calls, I finally got in touch with Poincheval, and we agreed to meet outside the train station in Alençon, about 130 miles west of Paris.

From The Verge • Feb. 13, 2015

Alençon again sat down unwillingly, subdued by the calm superiority of his mother's manner.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

Thus, in the case of lace, in Bourges and Alençon, and soap in the south, etc.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

Henry, whom the king has reproached with his ignorance of falconry, has asked the Duke of Alençon to procure him a book on that subject.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Just at this moment the Duke of Alençon took his place behind the king and the queen-mother; so that his gentlemen, in order to follow him, had to pass Margaret and the Duchess of Nevers.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

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