Épinal

[ ey-pee-nal ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

There were Epinal wares with figures in impossibly vivid colours; there were little cases and boxes with nobody knows what inside.

They seem to have been designed by ancestors of the Epinal foundries, and stained by them with crude colours.

The application of this term to the Epinal and Erfurt glossaries (or the archetype) seems to me to be open to grave objection.

Belfort and Epinal are in difficult, mountainous country, further away from Paris and less valuable for railway purposes.

But her cousin at Epinal was a stranger to her, and her uncle had always been to her the same as a father.

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