Meaning of third battle of Ypres in English

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1. Noun

   third battle of Ypres

   Definitions

   1. battle in World War I (1917)

   Examples

   • « an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders »
   • « Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery »