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Jourdan

American  
[zhoor-dahn] / ʒurˈdɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Jean Baptiste Count, 1762–1833, French marshal.


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Jourdan Smith scored 12 points while finishing 5 of 10 from the floor, and added five rebounds and four blocks.

From Seattle Times

He found a sideline selling drawings of fashion ideas: shoe designs for Charles Jourdan, accessories for Christian Dior and Yves Saint-Laurent.

From Washington Post

Over a decade later, using a technique called electron backscattered diffraction, Jourdan and his team were able to determine if the returned particles of Itokawa had previously been impacted in space.

From Salon

"Asteroids are usually thought of as a big chunk of solid rock, but they are not all like that — some are called rubble piles because they are rocks, boulders, and pebbles agglomerated together, but there is a lot of void spaces between those rocks and that extra void space make them shock-absorbent," Jourdan told Salon via email.

From Salon

Jourdan further explained that cushions are soft because there is a lot of air trapped in them.

From Salon