valenciennes in English

noun
1
a type of bobbin lace.
The lace is really handmade Valenciennes .

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1. 27 They offered opposing players bribes to fix a decisive league match against Valenciennes.

2. Cyprinidae: Barbodes lateristriga (Valenciennes, 1842) Fr native : 18.60 cm TL male/unsexed

3. His campaign was disrupted by a sprained ankle against Valenciennes in December.

4. However, for over two centuries, taxonomists believed Valenciennes' account matched the great hammerhead, which thus became known as Zygaena (later Sphyrna) tudes.

5. In 1656 the prince of Condé avenged the defeat of Arras by storming Turenne's circumvallation around Valenciennes (16 July), but Turenne drew off his forces in good order.

6. Its scientific name originated in 1822, with French zoologist Achille Valenciennes' description of Zygaena tudes in the scientific journal Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle; the specific epithet tudes is Latin for "hammer".