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waterloo

English

  1. 🔊 the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon
  2. 🔊 a final crushing defeat
    “he met his waterloo”
  3. 🔊 a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat

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