Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest France north of Nantes. It was an important Gallo-Roman town and became capital of Brittany in 1196.
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- proper noun A city in
Brittany ,France
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Examples
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Am at the place where you have just met Jim in Rennes at the concert.
une pièce montée 2008
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“Pulse of hope” was about someone (not Jim in Rennes) who I met last month and did not sleep with (read it again, did I say I did?) “Uncomplicated” is not intended to be patronising, and I would never use one person to get over another – I have to like someone, rather a lot, to be with them in that way.
sunday 2007
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Jim in Rennes left a year ago (and later changed his mind, but it was too late for me).
sunday 2007
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Last term Rennes were a steadfast unit, unlikely to concede goals in bursts but not clinical enough to finish teams off.
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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.
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Happy New Year to you, too, and to the hubby and Tadpole .. and as I read your book (which I enjoyed very much – good job!) over this past Christmas week, a happy holidays wish as well to Mr. Frog, who seems like such a good man and daddy (I loved how he was madder about Jim in Rennes hurting you by the breakup than he was about him “stealing” you away – to me that was the very defintion of love and friendship, as unlikely as it sounds.)
hiatus interruptus 2008
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My research took me to a delightful town in the Pyrenees called Rennes-les-Bains, and, from there, into an investigation of my own family background.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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Surrounding the Rennes was a pattern of encrypted markers, which, in turn, yielded conceptual topographic lines for sonic esoterically conceived geometric pattern.
Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003
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Other small cities suffer sporadic sprees of vandalism, which their perpetrators call "rodeos" -- Nancy, for instance, and Rennes, which is now patrolled by gardiens de nuit, a sort of French version of New York's Guardian Angels.
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Other small cities suffer sporadic sprees of vandalism, which their perpetrators call "rodeos" -- Nancy, for instance, and Rennes, which is now patrolled by gardiens de nuit, a sort of French version of New York's Guardian Angels.
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