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Weygand

American  
[vey-gahn] / veɪˈgɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Maxime 1867–1965, French general.


Weygand British  
/ vɛɡɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Maxime (maksim). 1867–1965, French general; as commander in chief of the Allied armies in France (1940) he advised the French Government to surrender to Germany

"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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A weather station at Montague-Yreka Airport has registered three straight days of its highest temperatures on record, Weygand said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2022

Although the politician and former French prime minister Pierre Laval was committed to collaboration, other figures at Vichy, such as Gen. Maxime Weygand, were believed to be more favorable to the Allies.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2021

But Reynaud, crazily, chose to bring into the cabinet the defeatist generals Pétain and Weygand, and he was under the crucial influence of his equally defeatist lover, Madame de Portes.

From The New Yorker Aug. 13, 2018

Commander Weygand, however, opposed such a move and vowed to remain on French soil to defend his homeland.

From Time Jul. 21, 2017

In 1745 Muhlenberg conducted a visitation at Raritan, induced Wolff to resign, sent them Kurtz and 1747 Schaum as temporary supply-pastors, and finally, in 1748, induced the congregation to call J. A. Weygand.

From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente

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