Angoumois
Americannoun
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The caterpillars of another type, Angoumois grain moths, develop and feed within whole kernels of grain or corn, or inside seeds.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2022
They withdrew, D'Epernon into Angoumois and Saintonge, taking with him six thousand foot and twelve thousand horse; and La Tremoille into Poitou, with nine battalions of Reformers.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert
Colbert labored to increase the receipts; the new imposts excited insurrections in Angoumois, in Guyenne, in Brittany.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Black, Robert
Its position was peculiar in this also, that it was in the seneschauté of the Angoumois, in the diocese of Périgueux, and for the purpose of taxation in the Limousin.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
Balzac was a gentleman of rank and fortune in the province of Angoumois, where he was born towards the end of the sixteenth century, and where he died in 1655.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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