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Bussy
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bussy
French
Etymology
There are over a dozen communes in France with this name, so multiple origins may be possible. The one in Oise was known in Roman times as fr la Buci, la Bucedrium, from a suffixed form of la buxus boxwood.Ernest Nègre, Toponymie générale de la France, Genève, Droz, 1990, p. 335.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
any of a number of communes in France
Derived terms
fr Debussy
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