Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Arrondissement"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Arrondissement \Ar`ron`disse`ment"\, n. [F., fr. arrondir to
make round; ad + rond round, L. rotundus.]
A subdivision of a department. [France]
Note: The territory of France, since the revolution, has been
divided into departments, those into arrondissements,
those into cantons, and the latter into communes.
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