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Established peace, banishing monsieur from a French region
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provencal
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Word definitions for provencal in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Provencal \Pro`ven`[,c]al"\, a. [F., fr. Provence, fr. L. provincia province. See Provincial .] Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Provençal may refer to: Of Provence , a region of France Provençal dialect , a dialect of the Occitan language, spoken in the southeast of France Provençal , meaning the whole Occitan language Franco-Provençal language , a distinct Romance language, which ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from French Provençal , from Provence (see Provence ). As a name of a language from 1640s. In reference to a style of cooking, attested from 1841.
Usage examples of provencal.
Philip of Rabenstein was bringing by sea six Breton and Provencal vessels, and three Genoese caracks, carrying 6500 invaders.
Bretons and Normans and Provencals and Parisians and a weird little group of Poitevin fanatics.
There was among them a Provencal who amused everybody with his boasting and with the recital of the military exploits by which he pretended to have distinguished himself in the service of several countries, and principally in Spain.
Frenchmen and Englishmen, Gascon and Provencal, Brabanter, Tardvenu, Scorcher, Flayer, and Free Companion, wandered and struggled over the whole of this accursed district.
The next day, the Provencal, rather crestfallen, came to share my dinner, and I gave him a friendly welcome.
As a rule the Provencal women are inclined this way, and far from reproaching them I like them all the better for it.
All were amiable and highly polished, like all the Provencal nobility.
Though the girl was only fourteen, she had all the indications of the marriageable age, and yet none of the Provencal amateurs had succeeded in making her see daylight.
I was thinking of a pale green, button-down collar shirtdress that I could wear through the spring, a pair of matching Jacques Cohen espadrilles, a Provencal print handbag from Pierre Deux, and like whatever accessories happened to catch my eye.