ville

Noun

ville (plural villes)

1. (US, historical) A Vietnamese village.
   • Once we fanned over a little ville that had just been airstruck and the words of a song by Wingy Manone that I’d heard when I was a few years old snapped into my head, “Stop the War, These Cats Is^([sic]) Killing Themselves.”1977, Michael Herr, “Breathing In”, in Dispatches, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 9
   • The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247
2. (rare) A town or village.
   • Abᵗ 12, We left Sᵗ Malo & came to Hedé that night 9 Leagues (bayting onely at Sᵗ Pierre a pretty Ville) where we were well lodged & found Mʳ Macartie (Irlandois) the Curé.1702 May 1 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Marwood, “Thomas Marwood’s Diary”, in J[ohn] H[ungerford] Pollen, editor, Miscellanea (Publications of the Catholic Record Society; 7), volume VI ([Henry]...
   • Found my classmate Means at Amherst [Mass.]. . . . Amherst is a very pleasant little ville, but still and inactive. There is some very good land around it. There is no academic school in the place.1837 September 11, Lucien Cyrus Boynton, edited by Solon J[ustus] Buck, “Selections from the Journal of Lucien C. Boynton, 1835–1853”, in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society […], volume...