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Versailles

//vɚˈsaɪ// name

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  1. 1
    A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
  2. 2
    A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
  3. 3
    A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
  4. 4
    The Palace of Versailles.
  5. 5
    A home rule city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
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  1. 6
    The Treaty of Versailles (1919). historical
  2. 7
    A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).

Etymology 2

From etymology 1.

Etymology 3

Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.

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