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Ypres

yp·res

UK/ˈiːpɹə/ uncommon

noun

1.

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

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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

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Origin

Borrowed from French Ypres.

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