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Versailles|vɛəˈsaɪ|
The name of a hunting lodge to the south-west of Paris built by Louis XIII and enlarged into a palace by Louis XIV in the 17th century, used to denote:
1. transf. A building of similar style or splendour. Also fig.
1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman Pleasure I. 134 But had it been a dungeon..his presence would have made it a little Versailles. 1899Kipling From Sea to Sea I. xvii. 159 Jeypore Palace may be called the Versailles of India. 1959M. Crosland tr. J. Rovan's Germany 140 Potsdam, the Prussian Versailles. 1968N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 47 The Hotel Pierre..a sort of ‘40-story Versailles’. 1977‘R. Player’ Month of Mangled Models vii. 125 It was Jules Goncourt who had called the whole house the Versailles of Whoredom.
2. The site of the peace conference held there at the conclusion of the 1914–18 war which gave its name to the treaty signed there in 1919. Also transf.
1928J. Buchan Runagates Club x. 273 The soldiers..would have made a cleaner and fairer job of it than the kind of circus that appeared at Versailles. 1936G. B. Shaw Millionairess 117 There remained the clauses of the Versailles Treaty by which Germany was to be kept in a condition of permanent, decisive, and humiliating military inferiority to the other Powers. 1967Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 8 Apr. 16/3 Most German politicians..ominously refer to this treaty as another ‘Versailles’. 1971Guardian 5 Aug. 10/4 In 1936..the Guardian was busily condemning the Versailles terms. 1981J. Wainwright Urge of Justice i. ix. 59 Versailles is being repaid... Hitler..is putting greatness back into Germany. |