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Grisons

American  
[gree-zawn] / griˈzɔ̃ /

noun

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


Grisons British  
/ ɡrizɔ̃ /

noun

  1. the French name for Graubünden

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

"The encounters in canton Grisons may seem dangerous to people," he told Swiss media, "but what happened is unlikely to have posed any real danger."

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2020

Dissentis�, a Swiss town, canton of Grisons, 3800 feet above the sea, at the junction of the Middle and Vorder Rhine, with a Benedictine abbey established so long ago as A.D.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

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