Allier

American  

[a-lyey] / aˈlyeɪ /

noun

1. a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.

2. a department in central France. 2,850 sq. mi. (7,380 sq. km). Moulins.

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Allier British  

/ alje /

noun

1. a department of central France, in Auvergne region. Capital: Moulins. Pop: 342 307 (2003 est). Area: 7382 sq km (2879 sq miles)

2. a river in S central France, rising in the Cévennes and flowing north to the Loire. Length: over 403 km (250 miles)

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Example Sentences

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

Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-D�me, and neighboring farmlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Allier, a confluent of the river Loire, in France, near Nevers; also the department through which it flows.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

They were subsequently allowed by Caesar to settle in the territory of the Aedui between the Loire and the Allier.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various