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Date "HOUGOUMONT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1816. (references)

Specialty Definition: HOUGOUMONT

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LiteratureHougoumont is said to be a corruption of Cháteau Goumont; but Victor Hugo says it is Hugo-mons, and that the house was built by Hugo, Sire de Sommeril, the same person that endowed the sixth chapelry of the abbey of Villers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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