Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A river of northern France flowing about 772 km (480 mi) generally northwest to the Bay of the Seine, an inlet of the English Channel, near Le Havre. It has been an important commercial waterway since Roman times and has figured significantly in the histories of Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre.
Wiktionary
- n. A river of northern France that flows through Paris for about 772 km (480 mi) to the English Channel near Le Havre.
- n. A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.
Etymologies
- French Seine (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Paris Dog Cemetery, Le Cimetière des chiens d'Asnières-sur-Seine, is thought to be the world's oldest public pet cemetery.”
“Among others, there are postcards of the Palais Idéal, the Hotel of Old Plates in Seine Maritime, France, and Agnes Jones 'Boneyard (see below).”
“The Seine is full of dace, but they grew cunning during the siege of Paris, and none of them has been caught since, except in nets.”
“Thirty years ago, when he began his career, he explains, the Seine was a very dirty river.”
“BUT, the Banks of the Seine is a UNESCO World Heritage site.”
“The sky was still white and hard, and the Seine was a nasty gray.”
“The Seine was a yellowish flood, carrying along refuse, broken boxes, branches of trees.”
“From this point the course of the Seine is a complicated winding among _iles_ and _ilots_, which gives it that elongation which makes necessary hours of journeying by boat as against a quarter of the time by the road -- as the crow flies -- to the lower fortifications of”
“After two days there a further move was made to the forward area, into a number of shelters known as the Seine area.”
The Story of the 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry France, April 1915-November 1918
“Yet neither he nor Rose Agassiz could realize that just across the Seine was the potential companionship of the great ones of the earth.”
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