arrondissement
noun
ˌa-ˌrōⁿ-(ˌ)dē-ˈsmäⁿ
Examples of arrondissement in a Sentence
Amy Louise Bailey, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
Located on Quai Voltaire in the city’s 7th arrondissement, the three-room, 260-square-meter (2,800-square-foot), third-floor apartment sold for nearly double its list price of €5.3 million ($5.7 million).
—Jack Guy, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
Visit the former studio and gardens of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle at the intimate Musée Bourdelle, tucked away in the 15th arrondissement.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
On a starry night in the 16th arrondissement, Vogue100 transformed the set of Miss Sohee’s spring 2024 show into an intimate gathering.
—Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2024
In the seventeenth arrondissement, in the northwest of the city, the district mayor, Geoffroy Boulard, has made the fight against rats one of his priorities.
—Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
Since then, the group has hosted weekly genealogy and research sessions out of its small office in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, to help people trace their own family stories.
—Catherine Porter, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
The facade of the building in the 5th arrondissement collapsed.
—Angela Charlton and Alex Turnbull, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2023
Located in the 7th arrondissement, Saint Laurent Babylone is a mecca of art, music, literature, and, of course, fashion.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2024
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Word History
borrowed from French, "action of making round or rounding off, circumscription of boundaries, extension of a territory, subdivision of a French department," going back to Middle French, "rounding off," from arrondiss-, variant stem of arrondir "to make round, round off" (going back to Old French arondir, from a-, prefix forming transitive verbs — going back to Latin ad- ad- — + -rondir, verbal derivative of reund, rond round entry 1) + -ment -ment
1746, in the meaning defined at sense 2
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