Dunes, from the same root as Dun (q.v.), 'a hill,' the name given to the sandhills or mounds which stretch more or less along the sea-coast of the Netherlands and parts of the north of France. In the Battle of the Dunes, fought near Dunkirk in 1658, Turenne defeated a Spanish army under Don John of Austria and the great Condé. See DOWNS and DRIFT; also DUNKIRK.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 123
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