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US
/ˈbɫɛnˌhaɪm/
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NOUN
- the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession
How To Use Blenheim In A Sentence
- TV programmes and books try to persuade us that we, whoever we are, can make over scrubby lawns, and construct a little Blenheim in a rectangle of twenty by thirty feet.
- I called a hansom outside and drove at once to Blenheim House, the temporary residence of the Archduchess and her suite. The Master Mummer
- Blenheims are chestnut and white, with chestnut ears and a white blaze between the eyes and ears.
- In 1705 he published The Campaign, a poem in heroic couplets in celebration of the victory of Blenheim.
- A hundred dancers, clothed in rainbow silks, celebrate Diwali in Blenheim palace.
- The same criticism can be made of ducal palaces like Chatsworth, Stowe, Woburn, Blenheim, sequestered in their parks.
- He boasted of having carried the colours of the 20th regiment, that bore the brunt of the day there, and mainly contributed to obtain a "glorious victory," as Southey, in his days of uncourtliness, called that of Blenheim. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
- The ceremonials were completed with a fly-past by a WWII Bristol Blenheim bomber, a Spitfire and a Mustang, the latter two representing the RAF and Royal Canadian Air Force fighters which flew over the island on the day of its liberation.
- But while coffers of this type are generally supported on stands with straight tapering legs, the Blenheim stands have handsome cabriole legs at both front and back, mounted at the top with acanthus volutes topped by female heads.
- Britain only had access to long range Blenheim bombers and fighters carried on Britain's aircraft carriers.