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St. Quentin

American  
[seynt kwen-tn, san kahn-tan] / ˌseɪnt ˈkwɛn tn, sɛ̃ kɑ̃ˈtɛ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in N France, on the Somme: retaken from the Germans 1918.


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Do not look expectantly at Péronne and St. Quentin and demand a daily sensation.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018

The great high road which drives straight at Péronne was as firm and smooth as in the days we travelled it to the old British trenches at St. Quentin.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2018

Each of them represents 40 men, a practical concession made so the gaming action doesn’t spill onto the floor and into the kitchen: Some 70,000 people collided at the real St. Quentin.

From Washington Post

Sent to her aunt's in St. Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Along the successive lines of heights southwest of St. Quentin the British, and afterward the French, who took this sector, had excellent firing positions, and retired from one to another in good order.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

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