Asnières

[ ah-nyer ]

noun
  1. a city in N central France, near Paris.

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How to use Asnières in a sentence

  • Here the train stopped at the Asnières station, and two privates of the Garde Impériale got into the carriage.

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  • Shortly after, Flourens arrived by the road of Asnières, bringing hardly a thousand men.

  • At the same time his brother stormed the castle of Bécon, that commands the road from Asnières to Courbevoie.

  • The 250 Federals who occupied it held out for six hours, and the survivors fell back upon Asnières, where panic entered with them.

  • The following day our vanguard was surprised by strong detachments, and the cannon of Courbevoie battered Asnières.

British Dictionary definitions for Asnières

Asnières

/ (French anjɛr) /


noun
  1. a suburb of Paris, France, on the Seine. Pop: 75 837 (1999)

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