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

They cultivated the fine lands of the Cevennes, the vineyards of Guienne, the cloths of Caen.

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It is generally of a mountainous character, and contains the culminating point of the Cevennes.

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Those white wreaths of smoke against the Cevennes tell me that.

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The love songs of the Jugoslav lands have a dreamy, calm and exalted sweetness that reminds us of the Alps and the Cevennes.

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The wasting persecutions of the Calvinists in the mountains of the Cevennes drove men and women wild with desperate fanaticism.

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