Dieppe

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  1. A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
    — Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
  2. A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe.
The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
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