Côte-d'Or

American  

[koht-dawr] / koʊtˈdɔr /

noun

1. a department in E France. 3,393 sq. mi. (8,790 sq. km). Dijon.

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Côte-d'Or British  

/ kotdɔr /

noun

1. a department of E central France, in NE Burgundy. Capital: Dijon. Pop: 510 334 (2003 est). Area: 8787 sq km (3427 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Police launched a major search operation in the eastern Cote-d’Or area, involving 40 officers and a helicopter, after a man spotted two people on his pasture on Saturday night, but the suspects got away.

From Reuters

The redrawn map threatened to result in communes around Dijon, the Côte-d’Or region, which produces crémant de bourgogne, a high-quality sparkling wine, and chablis, banned from using the burgundy AOC.

From The Guardian

This saintly child of God was born on May 2, 1806, at Fain-les-Moutiers, a village of the Cote-d'Or, in France.

From Project Gutenberg

In relating his recipe for eggs en meurette, François Sauvadet, a deputy from the Côte-d’Or, warned, “If it at first seems easy to make, you must know that it remains an affair of intuition.”

From New York Times

Whatever you may think about it you cannot travel from Charing Cross to Dijon through the hop-fields of Kent to the vineyards of the Côte-d’Or without admitting that whether the vine be a gift of good or evil it has come to stay.

From Project Gutenberg