Soissons

[ swa-sawn ]

noun

1. a city in N France, on the Aisne River: battles a.d. 486, 1918, 1944.

Soissons

/ swasɔ̃ /

noun

1. a city in N France, on the Aisne River: has Roman remains and an 11th-century abbey. Pop: 29 453 (1999)

Example Sentences

She suffered from alcohol and drugs problems which led her to open a centre for addicts in Soissons, near Paris.

From The Daily Beast

He lived in a house belonging to her, the hotel de Soissons; she made him her supreme adviser.

From Project Gutenberg

Again the brothers glanced at each other with a look which said: "The hotel de Soissons is inviolable."

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Half-way between (p. 258) Soissons and Compigne were pitched three splendid pavilions.

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On the twenty-sixth her cortge, having passed by way of Strasburg, was moving toward Soissons.

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Through the courtesy of friends who are members of the French Government we bore special passes admitting us to the Soissons area.

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