Cévennes

[ sey-ven ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. a mountain range in S France. Highest peak, Mt. Mézenc, 5,753 feet (1,754 meters).

Cévennes

/ sevɛn /

noun

1. a mountain range in S central France, on the SE edge of the Massif Central. Highest peak: 1754 m (5755 ft)

Example Sentences

A mountaineer of the Cévennes, brought up on chestnuts, his dazzled eyes blinked at the flower-bedecked tables of Paris.

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We were in the Cévennes about as soon as we had passed Alais.

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Jurieu, by his burning pamphlets, excited the insurrection of Cévennes.

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