arpents
- plural of arpent.
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Stengel's critique neatly encapsulates a view that has remained unchanged since Voltaire dismissed North America as "a few arpents of snow."
From Time Magazine Archive
The 1681 census discloses that Jean and Marguerite owned two guns, their 30 arpents, eight cattle, and had four children at home.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rent amounted to about one cent an acre, and some twenty cents or a live capon for each of the two or three arpents of frontage which a farm would have.
From A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by Wrong, George McKinnon
Each of the temples in this place occupy nearly ten arpents of ground, and all are very neat, with their brick pavements polished like glass.
In riding away from service on Sunday the horseman was forbidden to break into a canter until he had travelled ten arpents from the church.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
