Grisons

American  

[gree-zawn] / griˈzɔ̃ /

noun

1. a canton in E Switzerland. 2,747 sq. mi. (7,115 sq. km). Chur.

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Grisons British  

/ ɡrizɔ̃ /

noun

1. the French name for Graubünden

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Example Sentences

Sandro Michael of the farmers' association in the eastern canton of Grisons says the growing wolf population is putting farmers under enormous pressure.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2023

The police in the eastern Swiss canton of Grisons confirmed that two skiers in their 50s were killed in an avalanche.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023

“No one expected similar sites,” says Thomas Reitmaier, an archaeologist at the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland and a co-author of the new study.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 7, 2022

There have been reports of diseases from the cantons: Ticino, Geneva, Grisons, Aargau, Zurich, Basel-City and Vaud.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020

The former is Grand Master of the Ordnance, Colonel-General of the Swiss and Grisons, and Governor of Guienne: He married Louisa-Benedictina of Bourbon-Condé, by whom he has two Sons and a Daughter.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von