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Definitions of Bac:

A brewers vat or large open tub for containing beer; a ferry- boat.

Usage examples for Bac:

• The house did not belong to the Jacobins, like the houses of the Rue Saint- Dominique, and the Rue du Bac which, in order that they might command higher rents, were put in connection with the convent garden. "The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 9 And His Court and of The Regency", Duc de Saint-Simon

• But he was particularly fond of that long diversified Quai d'Orsay, which starts from the Rue du Bac in the very centre of the city, passes before the Palais Bourbon, crosses first the Esplanade des Invalides, and then the Champ de Mars, to end at the Boulevard de Grenelle, in the black factory region. "Fruitfulness Fecondite", Emile Zola

• " 26 Martii 1669. Da Hollis, fellow of Clare Hall is to make a publick Recantation in the Bac "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke