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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.

Hypernyms

  • Square Measure
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