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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "provencal" in a sentence

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    provencal


    1. I love the Provencal hinterland


    2. appeared first in 11th and 12th century Latin and Provencal as a


    3. To bed a Queen, would that be worth one's life? I glanced at her, her Saint-Cloud porcelain skin and Bordeaux lips and Provencal blue eyes


    4. Like everything else in these romances, it is a gross exaggeration of the real sentiment of chivalry, but its peculiar extravagance is probably due to the influence of those masters of hyperbole, the Provencal poets


    5. These rolls consisted of slips of cloth about four inches wide and Faria then drew forth from his hiding-place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the eighteen long; they were all carefully numbered and closely covered with writing, so legible that Dantes could easily read it, as well as make out the sense—it being in Italian, a language he, as a Provencal, perfectly understood


    6. Without having been in the school of the Abbe Faria, the worthy master of The Young Amelia (the name of the Genoese tartan) knew a smattering of all the tongues spoken on the shores of that large lake called the Mediterranean, from the Arabic to the Provencal, and this, while it spared him interpreters, persons always troublesome and frequently indiscreet, gave him great facilities of communication, either with the vessels he met at sea, with the small boats sailing along the coast, or with the people without name, country, or occupation, who are always seen on the quays of seaports, and who live by hidden and mysterious means which we must suppose to be a direct gift of providence, as they have no visible means of support


    7. Born a Provencal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of the south


    8. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provencal, Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic


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    Synonyms for "provencal"

    occitan provencal

    "provencal" definitions

    the medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France)


    of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture