Blenheim
village in S Germany, on the Danube: famous victory of the Duke of Marlborough over the French, 1704.
Contemporary Examples
‘World’ Players’ Secret Getaway William Underhill July 16, 2011
Drinking With the Stars: Drew Barrymore, Ramona Singer Wade Into Wine Rebecca Dana July 26, 2012
Historical Examples
The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete Duc de Saint-Simon
A Humorous History of England C. Harrison
With Marlborough to Malplaquet Herbert Strang and Richard Stead
The Story of Paris Thomas Okey
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
The Dogs’ Dinner Party Unknown
Battles of English History H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. VII. (of XXI.) Thomas Carlyle
noun
a village in SW Germany, site of a victory of Anglo-Austrian forces under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy that saved Vienna from the French and Bavarians (1704) during the War of the Spanish Succession Modern name Blindheim
noun
a type of King Charles spaniel having red-and-white markings
Also called Blenheim orange
a type of apple tree bearing gold-coloured apples
the fruit of this tree
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