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Seine-et-Oise

American  
[sen-ay-waz] / sɛn eɪˈwaz /

noun

  1. a former department in N France.


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He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imagine a Society comprising several million inhabitants engaged in agriculture, and a great variety of industries—Paris, for example, with the Department of Seine-et-Oise.

From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

Seine-et-Oise, "the Roman Catholic cult prevails in all the communes of the department."

From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by John Durand

He was then in his sixtieth year, deputy for the Seine-et-Oise, and an important member of the Left Center.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward

It has an area of 2400 sq. m., comprising the greater part of the department of Seine-et-Marne, together with portions of the departments of Seine, Seine-et-Oise, Aisne, Marne and Aube.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

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