Versailles
Proper noun
Meaning
A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
(by ellipsis) The Palace of Versailles.
(by ellipsis, historical) The Treaty of Versailles (1919).
Synonym: dictate of Versailles / Dictate of Versailles
A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
A home-rule class city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
Versailles
A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Examples
Versailles was a gulf into which the labor of France poured its earnings; and it was never full.
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Even Hitler is given a context by serious historians- the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles and the failure of Weimar Germany- whereas rampage murderers, like slaves once before them, are portrayed as having killed without reason.