intendance
Origin of intendance
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How to use intendance in a sentence
Defects in administration by the intendance, and general obstructiveness in that branch of the service.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army | Charles Alexander GordonShe found a pretense to call upon Barbaroux, then with his friends at the intendance.
He would of preference have stayed in the intendance had he known that pitfalls and traps were at every footstep.
The Seats Of The Mighty, Complete | Gilbert ParkerYet at this very time Doltaire was living in the intendance, and, as he had told Alixe, not without some personal danger.
The Seats Of The Mighty, Complete | Gilbert ParkerShe walked lame, and must use a stick, and we issued forth towards the intendance, Mathilde remaining behind.
The Seats Of The Mighty, Complete | Gilbert Parker
British Dictionary definitions for intendance
/ (ɪnˈtɛndəns) /
any of various public departments, esp in France
a less common word for superintendence: See superintendence
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