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provencal
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.
Provencal \Pro`ven`[,c]al"\, n. [F.]
A native or inhabitant of Provence in France.
The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
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.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 308
Land area (2000): 2.463445 sq. miles (6.380293 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.463445 sq. miles (6.380293 sq. km)
FIPS code: 62770
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 31.654131 N, 93.200984 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71468
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Provencal
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 should not be confused with the Occitan language or with the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language
- Provencal cuisine
- Provencal wine
- Provencal, Louisiana, a village in the United States
- Provencal, an alternative name for the Italian wine grape Dolcetto
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.