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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The town of Mandeville has been, for want of a better word, flattened.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
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
His son Richard said he had fallen and broke his hip on 5 July, and was successfully operated on at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
Flames pushed up against established fire lines set up along Mulholland Drive and jumped over the lines west of Mandeville Canyon.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
She pointed to the left Neither of the boys had read the book of Sir John de Mandeville, so they did not know that a griffin was eight times larger than a lion.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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