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n. A town in the region of Nord, in the north-east of France
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Valenciennes (; Dutch: Valencijn, Latin: Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
It lies on the Scheldt river. Although the city and region experienced a steady population decline between 1975 and 1990, it has since rebounded. The 1999 census recorded that the population of the commune of Valenciennes was 41,278, and that of the metropolitan area was 399,677.
Valenciennes can mean:
- Valenciennes, a town and commune on the Scheldt river in the Nord département of northern France.
- Valenciennes FC a football (soccer) club from Valenciennes.
- Valenciennes lace
- Herman de Valenciennes, 12th century French poet.
- Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), French zoologist.
- Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes (1750-1819), French painter
- Valenciennes River, a river in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia, Canada
Usage examples of "valenciennes".
He removed his sons from the school at Passy and on July 27, accompanied by the servant Stephens, they were on their way north by coach, traveling fast over good roads to Compiegne and Valenciennes, through the finest farmland Adams had ever seen, at the height of one of the most abundant summers France had known.
Earlier there had been only poorer women in striped dimity, but at midday fashionable ladies began to appear in gowns dripping with Valenciennes lace and towering powdered wigs decorated with flowers and birds.
Not one of them but bore its two ankers of the right French cognac, or its bale of silk of Lyons and lace of Valenciennes.
The Countess Ambrose's dress was to be white satin with a rich border of Valenciennes lace.
It was a chali frock, of a neat fawn coloured pattern, with fine muslin trousers edged with Valenciennes lace at the bottom.
Reid was trim and lovely in an organdie and Valenciennes lace gown.
In the dresser drawer there still remained a half-length slip of black faille, hemmed with a pleated flounce and fine Valenciennes lace, which was made to be worn under a pleated sun skirt of black wool which was too sheer not to be transparent.
Her languishing eyes are turned on him, and in an instant, he is on his legs, and pushing her clothes up, displays a lovely pair of legs in white silk stockings, beautiful blue garters with gold buckles, her thighs encased in rather tight-fitting drawers, beautifully trimmed with Valenciennes lace.
The yards of green muslin were broken by rows of white Valenciennes lace delicately sewn to fit snugly under her breasts.
There were caskets of diamonds, cashmere shawls, Valenciennes lace, English veilings, and in fact all the tempting things, the bare mention of which makes the hearts of young girls bound with joy, and which is called the “.
The family fortunes may have declined, but she wore silk nighties trimmed with Valenciennes lace.