Arpent (Noun)
Meaning
A former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The farm covered about fifty arpents of fertile land along the river.
- To cultivate his fields, the peasant needed to work several arpents of land manually.
- After the sale, the newlywed couple became owners of a property of over twenty arpents.
- The old aristocrat boasted of possessing more than a hundred arpents of land and woods.
- By way of comparison, the entire estate was roughly the size of fifty arpents square.