Mandeville
Americannoun
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Bernard de c1670–1733, English physician and satirist, born in Holland.
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Sir John, died 1372, English compiler of a book of travels.
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Bernard de. ?1670–1733, English author, born in Holland, noted for his satire The Fable of the Bees (1723)
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Sir John. 14th century, English author of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville. The book claims to be an account of the author's journeys in the East but is largely a compilation from other works
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Michaels hiked with Kennedy in Los Angeles’ Mandeville Canyon last year but was too busy talking to him about how to combat the nation’s obesity problem to ask why he was wearing jeans, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025
Mr Wood said Mr Masum was arrested in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire three days after Ms Akter's death, following police appeals.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2025
I have been covering Matt Hampson's story for 20 years and first met him in Stoke Mandeville Hospital not long after his accident.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2025
Evacuation orders expanded to the rest of the Palisades and north into the mountains to Mandeville Canyon Road: “Gather people and pets and leave immediately.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025
She took with her the sampled box of Dutch cookies that had originally been intended for the patient at Mandeville.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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