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Hague
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hague hagué
English
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Etymology
As an English surname, variant of en Haigh.
As an en ga - surname, variant of en Haig.
Pronunciation
en /ˈheɪ̯ɡ/ [ˈheɪ̯ɡ]
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Hague.wav Southern England
en eɪɡ 1
en Hague
en Haig hag <<æ-tensing>> before /ɡ/
Proper noun
en.
en place c/USA:
en unincorporated community co/Alachua County s/Florida.
en town co/Warren County s/New York, named after en The Hague.
en minor city co/Emmons County s/North Dakota, named after The Hague.
en unincorporated community co/Westmoreland County s/Virginia.
en town rurmun/Rosthern p/Saskatchewan c/Canada.
Shortened or attributive form of en The Hague.
Hague tribunals; Hague announces plans to reduce homelessness
Derived terms
en Hague Invasion Act Hagueite
Proper noun
the Hague
en now nonstandard en The Hague.
en An Accurate Relation of the Entertainment of His Most Sacred Majesty William III. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland; Hereditary Stadtholder of the United Netherlands, &c. at the Hague.Giving a Particular Description of His Majesty’s Entry There, Jan. 26, 169⁰⁄₁. And of the Several Triumphant Arches, Pyramids, Pictures, &c. with the Inscriptions and Devices. Illustrated with Copper Plates of the Whole Solemnity, Exactly Drawn from the Original. Translated from the Dutch. London 1691 1 HIS Majeſty being earneſtly Entreated by the States of Holland, and the Confederate Princes in Germany, &c. to meet at a General Congreſs, to be held at the Hague, in order to Concert matters for the next Campaign, was pleaſed to Condeſcend to their Requeſt, and hazard His Royal Perſon by Sea, (though in the depth of Winter) His Noble Zeal for the Good of us in particular, and Europe in general, ſurmounting all thoſe Difficulties:
II The doctor exults in his victory. They set out for Rotterdam, where they are entertained by two Dutch gentlemen in a yacht, which is overturned in the Maes, to the manifest hazard of the painter’s life. They spend the evening with their entertainers, and next day visit a cabinet of curiosities. 254 [H]e ordered his ſervants to pack up ſome cloaths and linnen in a portmanteau; and in the morning embarked, with his governor, in the Treckſkuyt, for the Hague, whither he pretended to be called by ſome urgent occaſion, leaving his fellow-travellers to make his apology to their friends; and aſſuring them, that he would not proceed for Amſterdam, without their ſociety. He arrived at the Hague in the forenoon, and dined at an ordinary frequented by officers and people of faſhion;
en Copy of the Treaty of Defensive Alliance with Holland [William Cobbett] The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803.From which last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued downwards in the Work Entitled “The Parliamentary Debates.” London Printed by T[homas] C[urson] Hansard,Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street: for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown; [et al.] 23 May 1788 1816 XXVII 553 https://books.google.com/books?id=RKg9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA553 20121995 Mr. Pitt [i.e., William Pitt the Younger] presented, by his Majesty's command, a copy of the defensive alliance between his Majesty and the States General of the United Provinces, signed at the Hague, the 15th of April 1788; and translation.
en J[ohn] S[key] Eustace Letters on the Emancipation & Preservation of the United Provinces, to John De Witt, Esquire; with Lessons of Humanity, Addressed to Nicholas Van Staphorst: Written from Basil, in the Year 1794 Rotterdam [s.n.] 16 April 1797 91 https://books.google.com/books?id=3mo-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA91 69325380 At this period, I had never been at Rotterdam or the Hague—which must sufficiently attest the wilful malignity of those by whom this report was sent forth from hence. As a General Officer, who had voluntarily retired from the most distinguished Army on Earth, I could have no motive of pride or concealment for putting on the title of an Admiral—in a Navy which has never existed: besides, the American minister was then at the Hague, so that any attempt to figure under a borrowed or supposed character, could only have originated in folly—and must have entailed immediate and eternal disgrace on the actor.
en w:Junius Henri Browne Holland and the Hollanders Harper’s New Monthly Magazine XLIV CCLX New York, N.Y. Harper & Brothers,Publishers, 327 to 335 Pearl Street, Franklin Square January 1872 176 The fishermen convey their fish to the Hague in carts drawn by dogs (the animals are large and strong); and when they have completed their sales, return home in the empty carts drawn by their canine steeds.
en 1881 The National Temperance League's annual 39 https://archive.org/details/nationaltempera00raegoog/page/n544/mode/1up Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.
en Anecdotal Europe. By the Author of ‘An Englishman in Paris.’ w:The Illustrated London News CVI 2931 London 22 June 1895 774 https://archive.org/details/sim_illustrated-london-news_1895-06-22_106_2931/page/774/mode/1up 2 I went to a concert in the Zoological Gardens at the Hague, and thence to supper at one of the principal cafés.
19 It was as if Belonging lay in some ivory-inlaid credenza in the Hague, waiting to be opened before expiration date.
en http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/07/warcrimes.ianblack Defenders emerge for Milosevic 2001-07-07 The Guardian Ian Black André Tremblay "I'm going to the Hague to see Mr Milosevic at his request," he told CBC radio before leaving Canada. "All of us feel he's being railroaded and used as a scapegoat for Nato's attack on Yugoslavia. https://web.archive.org/web/20261020143842/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/07/warcrimes.ianblack 20 October 2026
See also
en Hague Bar