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The French Occupying Sheds Or Big Buildings

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noun

• a large and stately mansion

• a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack

• (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

• interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

verb

• move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

29%9 Homeless people occupying vacant buildings
noun

• someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it

• someone who settles on land without right or title

24%6 Prior occupying quarters in a French town
noun

• a port city in western France on the Loire estuary

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