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Valenciennes lace
Valenciennes lace Va*len`ci*ennes" lace" [F.; -- so called after the town of Valenciennes.] A rich kind of lace made at Valenciennes, in France. Each piece is made throughout, ground and pattern, by the same person and with the same thread, the pattern being worked in the net.

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- the po****tion of the commune of Valenciennes was 41,278, and that of the metropolitan area was 399,677. Valenciennes is first mentioned in 693 in a legal...
- Valenciennes Football Club (French pronunciation: [valɑ̃sjɛn] ; commonly known as Valenciennes or USVA) is a French ****ociation football club based in...
- Achille Valenciennes (9 August 1794 – 13 April 1865) was a French zoologist. Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. His study...
- be count of the Valenciennes area. Vanderkindere speculated in 1902 (Vol. 2 p. 72) that Emperor Otto I created the March of Valenciennes in the late 940s/early...
- Look up Valenciennes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valenciennes can mean: Valenciennes, a town and commune on the Scheldt river in the Nord département...
- Herman de Valenciennes, 12th-century French poet, was born at Valenciennes. His father and mother, Robert and Herembourg, belonged to Hainaut, and gave...
- Valenciennes lace is a type of bobbin lace which originated in Valenciennes, in the Nord département of France, and flourished from about 1705 to 1780...
- Siege of Valenciennes may refer to: Siege of Valenciennes (1567), a siege during the Eighty Years' War Siege of Valenciennes (1656), a siege during the...
- The organ of Valenciennes, named after the French naturalist Achille Valenciennes, is one of two secondary ****ual organs of the female of the genus Nautilus...
- Battle of Valenciennes may refer to: Battle of Valenciennes (1656), fought on 16 July that year during the Franco-Spanish War, resulting in a Spanish...