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Valenciennes

NOUN
  1. a town in northeastern France long noted for its lace industry
  2. a type of bobbin lace with floral patterns

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  • With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
  • They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive league match against Valenciennes.
  • Race owner ASO said the event will “make a significant incursion into the area around Valenciennes and will pass through the sectors of Aulnoy-lez-Valenciennes and Famars.” Paris-Roubaix tweaks route to add new (old) cobbles sections
  • Last term Rennes lost just once at home, this season they have already suffered losses at the Stade de la Route de Lorient to Auxerre and Valenciennes. Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • Her shoes white satin, embroidered in gold; the sleeves and body of the chemise, which is of the finest cambric, trimmed with rich lace; and the petticoat, which comes below the dress, shows two flounces of Valenciennes. Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
  • Valenciennes lace, that being the simplest frock in her wardrobe; but she privately thought even Mrs. Washington's apotheosised lawns and organdies very "scrubby," and could never bring herself to anything less expensive than summer silks, made at the greatest house in Paris. The Californians
  • They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive league match against Valenciennes.
  • There were boxes upon boxes, and bureau drawers and closet shelves already filled up with hand-embroidered and lace-trimmed creations-chemises and corset-covers, night-robes of "handkerchief linen" lawn, lace handkerchiefs and veils, corsets of French coutil, dressing-jackets of pale-coloured silks, and negligees of soft batistes, trimmed with Valenciennes lace, or even with fur. The Metropolis
  • They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive league match against Valenciennes.
  • The strategetical importance of _Valenciennes_, a town of 32,000 inhabitants, is due to its being the meeting places of main roads from 1914
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