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Cleves

 (klēvz)
See Kleve.
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Grand old Bisham Abbey, whose stone walls have rung to the shouts of the Knights Templars, and which, at one time, was the home of Anne of Cleves and at another of Queen Elizabeth, is passed on the right bank just half a mile above Marlow Bridge.
1540: Henry VIII divorced his fourth wife Anne of Cleves, nicknamed The Flanders Mare, after six months of marriage.
The Second World War was over but Sid and an officer had been clearing mines near Cleves in north-west Germany.
KACHY is set to go for the Cleves Stakes at Lingfield on February 2 ahead of another crack at the All-Weather Championships Sprint Final at the Surrey track in April.
This Halloween, take interiors inspiration from your pumpkin carving and and add a beautiful orange glow to your home with the Cleves Grand Sofa's beautiful amber hue.
The mourners included Harry Kassen, a student at the Manhattan school where one of the victims, Nicholas Cleves, 23, worked parttime.
Indeed, occurrences of the noun "amour" have relatively limited presence in La Princesse de Cleves, less than a quarter of the nouns in the semantic field.
By Rachel Hope Cleves. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.