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Mayence

American  
[ma-yahns] / maˈjɑ̃s /

noun

  1. French name of Mainz.


Mayence British  
/ majɑ̃s /

noun

  1. the French name for Mainz

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lieutenant Georges le Mes-nager, 79, said to be the oldest soldier to serve throughout the World War, in Mayence, France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their extension is in the Mayence district, not in the Ruhr, and is toward the great city of Frankfort.

From Time Magazine Archive

We saw the Rhine and the lights of Mayence in the distance.

From Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

I am grieved to think that you are tired of Mayence.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

Within ten years it had been reissued at Louvain, twice at Strasburg, twice at Mayence, at Leipsic, twice at Paris, twice at Cologne, at Antwerp, and at Venice.

From Against War by Desiderius Erasmus

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