Allier
Americannoun
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a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
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a department in central France. 2,850 sq. mi. (7,380 sq. km). Moulins.
noun
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a department of central France, in Auvergne region. Capital: Moulins. Pop: 342 307 (2003 est). Area: 7382 sq km (2879 sq miles)
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a river in S central France, rising in the Cévennes and flowing north to the Loire. Length: over 403 km (250 miles)
Example Sentences
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Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-D�me, and neighboring farmlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Billy is on the Allier, a beautiful river, and, seen from a distance, with its towering ruin, is truly picturesque.
From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Paine, Albert Bigelow
Now the Allier divides it; and the astonished cultivator digs into virgin strata of fertile loams, the lowest depths of which have never yet been revealed.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
On the opposite bank of the Allier the land kept mounting for miles to the horizon: a tanned and sallow autumn landscape, with black blots of fir-wood and white roads wandering through the hills.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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