Definitions
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- proper noun A
city inFlanders ,Belgium ; or, the municipality containing this city.
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- noun battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
- noun battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
- noun battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
Etymologies
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Examples
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Most of the casualties occurred not only in Ypres but almost behind it.
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It was for us a great military comfort to know that you were with the English, near the French, to support our great cause; and we knew what your men had done in Ypres, and in Flanders, in the first attack against the Germans.
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The name of Ypres is being hammered into the history of Canada.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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By ten o'clock the next morning the Dressing Station in Ypres was no longer tenable.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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– At 11 a.m. shells fell in Ypres, close to our dressing station: shrapnel and pieces of shell fell at irregular intervals.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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Returning to Vlamertinghe just before dawn, his motor-car, which had been hit at St. Jean, "stalled" and came to a standstill at the greatest danger spot on the whole road, namely, at "The Devil's Corner" in Ypres – a spot that since the beginning of the battle had been subjected to continuous shell fire.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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This force was promptly sent, and the record of their gallant service in the retreat from Mons, in the battle of the Marne, and in the first battle of Ypres, is one of the most glorious in the annals of our race.
Britain's Effort 1917
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But Ypres is majestic in death, poor Nieuport gruesomely comic.
Fighting France 1915
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– 7.45 a.m.: Major Hardy reports from D.S. in Ypres that they were under continuous shell fire all night, and that as soon as he could evacuate all the wounded he was going to move the D.S.
War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps John George 1918
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One should not leave Belgium without visiting Ypres, that is if he wants to know what a highly respectable and thriving small city of
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