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- noun Plural form of
arpen .
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Examples
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“The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.” —
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[302: 1] At Stonehouse "there are two arpens of Vineyard."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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"The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land."
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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"The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land."
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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"The Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest fishes that are: among which the Whales and Whirlpooles called Baæne, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land."
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The other objects most worthy of notice in this spacious, building, which, together with its precincts, occupies seventeen _arpens_, are the refectories and kitchens, which are very extensive.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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It contains twenty arpens or jourries, and its culture costs about four or five hundred francs a year; it sometimes employs forty or fifty laborers at a time.
Miscellany 1784
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"vivacités," entering in a private book such items as "Fifteen napoleons to Menneval for a box on the ear, a war-horse to my aide-de-camp Mouton for a kick, fifteen hundred _arpens_ in the imperial forests to Bassano for having dragged him round my room by the hair."
Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead
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Holland’s Plinie on the Whales and Whirlepooles called Balænæ, which take up in length as much as foure acres or arpens of land, v. 1, p. 235, &c. Thornback, _Raja_.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Balæne, take up as much in length as four acres or arpens of land.”
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