Armorican
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Armorican
Example Sentences
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The tale runs that Maximus, having engaged his provincial Britons in his ambitious schemes, rewarded their military aid by planting them in one of these Armorican communities.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
The word Ister, which, according to Zeuss, is the Thracian name of the Danube, I have elsewhere referred to the Armorican ster, a river.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Many more went over in a great fleet into Armorican Britain; so that the whole church of the two provinces, Loegria and Northumberland, had its convents destroyed.
From Old English Chronicles by Various
Let us now examine whether the Armorican sense is capable of giving a perfect meaning to both lines?
From Notes and Queries, Number 85, June 14, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
It stretches far away to the right and left of the marsh, seeing that, towards the west, it reaches the borders of the Armorican Sea.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue
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