ypres : Idioms & Phrases

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battle of ypres

  • noun battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
  • noun battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
  • noun battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
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first battle of ypres

  • noun battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
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second battle of ypres

  • noun battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
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third battle of ypres

  • noun battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery
    Ypres; battle of Ypres.
WordNet

ypres lace

Y"pres lace`
Definitions
  1. Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.
Webster 1913