Aunis

American  

[oh-nees] / oʊˈnis /

noun

1. a historic region in western France, on the Atlantic coast: once a fief of the duchy of Aquitaine.

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Example Sentences

Or, why might not both be reinforced by the troops of La Noue, who had been accomplishing such exploits in Aunis and Saintonge?

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

DEUX-S�VRES, an inland department of western France, formed in 1790 mainly of the three districts of Poitou, Thouarsais, G�tine and Niortais, added to a small portion of Saintonge and a still smaller portion of Aunis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various

It was not long before her hospitable walls sheltered fifty of the Protestant nobles of the neighboring provinces, fifty-five ministers, and fifteen hundred soldiers, chiefly from Saintonge, Aunis, and Poitou.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

CHARENTE-INF�RIEURE, a maritime department of south-western France, comprehending the old provinces of Saintonge and Aunis, and a small portion of Poitou, and including the islands of R�, Ol�ron, Aix and Madame.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

"Let me take one hundred of the gendarmes of Aunis; I have plenty of friends there, and can choose whom I like."

From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre