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  • proper noun A town in the Morbihan département of Brittany, in France

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Examples

  • Medieval Vannes is both a lovely harbor on the Morbihan

    2000 Tour cities 2000

  • A researcher at the University of South Brittany enlisted a good-looking 20-year-old male to hit on 120 randomly chosen women at a nightclub in Vannes.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • A researcher at the University of South Brittany enlisted a good-looking 20-year-old male to hit on 120 randomly chosen women at a nightclub in Vannes.

    Primary Sources 2007

  • Rominger, looking stunned, sat on the ground for minutes getting medical treatment before being put on a stretcher and taken to a hospital in Vannes.

    USA TODAY Latest news 1999

  • D'Artagnan later discovers that Aramis has become the bishop of Vannes, which is, coincidentally, a parish belonging to M. Fouquet.

    The Man in the Iron Mask Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • D'Artagnan later discovers that Aramis has become the bishop of Vannes, which is, coincidentally, a parish belonging to M. Fouquet.

    Ten Years Later Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • D'Artagnan later discovers that Aramis has become the bishop of Vannes, which is, coincidentally, a parish belonging to M. Fouquet.

    Louise de la Valliere Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • From Vannes. maville.com, in turn by way of Le Forum Cathoiique comes news of the ordination of two new priests of the Institute of the Good Shepherd in the basilica of Sainte-Anne d'Auray on July 4th.

    New Priests for the IBP 2009

  • After Le Mans we are off to the Atlantic coast around Vannes for a week.

    mauvais perdant - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • I took some of our men and rode over the border to Anjou to attract as much attention as I could, while Henry took the road to Vannes with a guard of only five.

    The Red Queen Philippa Gregory 2010

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