Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a breed of dogs of the spaniel kind, preserved in perfection at Blenheim House, near Oxford, England, since the beginning of the eighteenth century.
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- noun the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession
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Examples
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I wanted some conversation with the man who thro his microscope from the top of the house can distinguish the basilisk in Blenheim Park.
Letter 48 1793
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On Saturday V. and I decided to escape the crowds and go to a place called Blenheim Palace near Oxford.
UK Holiday, Part 1 Annette 2009
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On Saturday V. and I decided to escape the crowds and go to a place called Blenheim Palace near Oxford.
Archive 2009-06-01 Annette 2009
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Only in the last years of his life did trembling courtiers dare whisper to him, after much circumlocution, that a certain battle had been fought at a place called Blenheim, and that Eugene and Marlborough had stopped his long career of triumphs.
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They all traveled in the same direction and he altered his course to follow them — assuming that whatever event had called Blenheim was calling them as well.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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They all traveled in the same direction and he altered his course to follow them — assuming that whatever event had called Blenheim was calling them as well.
The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters Dahlquist, Gordon 2006
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It was this waistcoat, which the young man called the Blenheim vest, that had attracted the crowd, and Tom could not at first get near the door, so much chaffering and laughing and rough play was going on round it.
Tom Tufton's Travels Evelyn Everett-Green 1894
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In the summer of 1706, two years after the second battle of Hochstett, which Englishmen call Blenheim, in a world ringing with the names of
In Kings' Byways Stanley John Weyman 1891
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Marlborough was rewarded by the queen and nation buying an estate for him, which was called Blenheim, where woods were planted so as to imitate the position of his army before the battle, and a grand house built and filled with pictures recording his adventures.
Young Folks' History of England Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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-- Only in the last years of his life did trembling courtiers dare whisper to him, after much circumlocution, that a certain battle had been fought at a place called Blenheim, and that Eugene and Marlborough had stopped his long career of triumphs.
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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