Crossword clues for maldon
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Maldon \Maldon\ prop. n. A battle in which the Danes defeated the East Saxons in 991; it is celebrated in an old English poem.
Syn: battle of Maldon.
Wikipedia
"Maldòn" is a 1989 song recorded by the Guadelupian group Zouk Machine. The song is the first single from the album of the same name, and was released in May 1990. In France, it achieved a huge success, topping the singles charts for about two months.
The song was written and produced by Guy Houllier and Yves Honoré.
In France, it debuted at the bottom of the French Singles Chart on 26 May 1990, but reached number one, four weeks after. It stayed seven weeks at this position, then dropped to number two. However, six weeks after, the single reached number one for another two weeks. Thereafter, "Maldòn" almost did not stop to fall and fell off the chart (top 50) after 27 weeks, on 1 December.
It was the number-one single of the year in France.
According to Infodisc website, the song is the 224th-best-selling single of all time in France, with 752,000 copies sold.
The song was notably covered in a live performance by French actress and singer Valérie Lemercier at the 2007 César Awards ceremony. It was also covered by Jenifer Bartoli, Sandrine Kiberlain and Natasha St-Pier for Les Enfoirés' 2006 album Le Village des Enfoirés and included in a medley named "Medley Vie quotidienne".
Maldon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by John Whittingdale, a Conservative.
Usage examples of "maldon".
Jack Maldon as a modern Sindbad, and pictured him the bosom friend of all the Rajahs in the East, sitting under canopies, smoking curly golden pipes - a mile long, if they could be straightened out.
As we have money in our pockets we can hire horse at Burnham to take us to Maldon, and get others there to carry us home.
He sits down at the desk, fits a new relief nib to his dip pen (which he prefers to a fountain pen), unscrews the ink bottle, takes a sheet of old examination paper (which still has a candidates essay on the Battle of Maldon on the back of it), and begins to write: When Bilbo opened his eyes, he wondered if he had.