Marengo
Americannoun
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Marengos
plural
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a village in Piedmont, in NW Italy: Napoleon defeated the Austrians 1800.
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a former gold coin of Italy, issued by Napoleon after the battle of Marengo.
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Etymology
Origin of Marengo
C19: after a dish prepared for Napoleon after the battle of Marengo
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Wednesday, cross-traffic will be shut down at multiple intersections between Pasadena and Hill avenues, including El Molino, Fair Oaks, Marengo, Los Robles, Lake and Wilson avenues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
Darden’s Altadena home — 2528 Marengo Ave., about five blocks west of Lake Avenue — was not included in an evacuation order zone, or “polygon,” Boxer said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2025
Nabil B called the Marengo case "the most diseased and poisoned trial ever".
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
"The originality of this trip is related to the originality of the country sparsely populated and with such a small Catholic community," Marengo said last month in Rome.
From Reuters ● Aug. 28, 2023
He would have been very surprised if anyone had told him he would end up caretaker at the Marengo home.
From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
If I cannot have my war at my own doors, and hear the bands and the cannon I have paid for, I must at least have sensational battle-fields—Actiums and Waterloos and Marengos.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
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