Trianon
noun
either of two palaces in Versailles, the Grand Trianon or the Petit Trianon, built in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Trianons
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pluralof Trianon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Rare books and manuscripts were spirited away from shelves of the National Library; the Chateau de Versailles and the Trianons, stripped of their furnishings, lay empty and bare.
From Time Magazine Archive
We went through this building, which is a little in the style of the Trianons, at Versailles; smaller than Le Grand Trianon, and larger than Le Petit Trianon.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper
With a single friend I paid a visit to the two Trianons.
From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by William Wells Brown
August 25 was the birthday of the Empress Marie Louise, and this was celebrated at the two Trianons, which were full of memories of Louis XIV. and of Marie Antoinette.
From The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
The afternoon was devoted to the gardens and the Trianons.
From Patty in Paris by Carolyn Wells
