Ypres

Borrowed from French Ypres.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːpɹə/

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Ypres

1. A city in West Flanders, Belgium.
   • 1986 November, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 18 July 2022:

     Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.

2. The municipality containing this city.
3. Any of several battles fought near this city during the First World War.

• yperite
• Ypresian
• Yprois

• Wipers

• Ypres on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• preys, pyres, rypes, spyre

First mentioned 1066, probably related to the river Ieperlee of Flanders, from Dutch iep (“elm tree”).

• IPA^(key): /ipʁ/

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Ypres f

1. Ypres

• ypérite
• ypresien
• yprois, Yprois
• ypréau

• English: Ypres