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Eiffel   /ˈaɪfəl/   Listen
Eiffel

noun
1.
French engineer who constructed the Eiffel Tower (1832-1923).  Synonym: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel.



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"Eiffel" Quotes from Famous Books



... already mentioned. In 1544 it was crowned, by Robert Becquet, with a light spire of wood, 132 metres in height, that was burnt by the lightning in 1821.[27] The new cast-iron erection, with which it has been replaced, may best be described as possessing half the height of the Eiffel Tower with none of the excuses for the Colonne de Juillet, of which M. Alavoine, its architect, was also the designer. For the present I need only add that both the western towers could actually be placed, all but their last two metres, inside the nave of Beauvais. The nave of Rouen ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook



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