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Arrondissements

Arrondissement

a subdivision of a department.

The territory of France, since the revolution, has been divided into departments, those into arrondissements, those into cantons, and the latter into communes.

Origin: f, fr. Arrondir to make round; ad _ rond round, L. Rotundus.


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