Dinant

/ dinɑ̃ /

noun

1. a town in S Belgium, on the River Meuse below steep limestone cliffs: 11th-century citadel: famous in the Middle Ages for fine brassware, known as dinanderie : tourism, metalwork, biscuits. Pop: 12 719 (2004 est)

Example Sentences

Dinant was spared the deadly floods 10 days ago that killed 37 people in southeast Belgium and many more in Germany, but the violence of Saturday's storm surprised many.

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The storm wreaked similar havoc, also with no loss of life, in the small town of Anhee a few kilometres north of Dinant.

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"I have been living in Dinant for 57 years, and I've never seen anything like that," Richard Fournaux, the former mayor of the town on the Meuse river and birthplace of the 19th century inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, said on social media.

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Facussé trained as an aeronautical engineer in Indiana, in the American Midwest, and started his career by converting war planes into commercial carriers, but he built his fortune and notoriety through Dinant Chemicals.

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In a case that has dragged on for nearly seven years, the CAO is investigating whether Dinant Corporation, a Honduran palm-oil and food company given IFC funds, used private security forces to effect forced evictions of farmers on and around its plantations.

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