Guyenne

British  

/ ɡɥijɛn /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Guienne

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Example Sentences

Across the square, Jane Fraser-Bryan, of Guyenne Immobilier Properties, told the same story.

From The Guardian

For several years George Buchanan had taught at the Collège de Guyenne, in Bordeaux, and one of his students there, a young boarder who also came to him outside of class for private instruction, was a local boy named Michel Eyquem.

From The New Yorker

GIRONDE, a maritime department of south-western France, formed from four divisions of the old province of Guyenne, viz.

From Project Gutenberg

Guicciardini gives the following interesting account of the exchange of prisoners at Fuenterrabia: 'By this time the French king was come to Fuenterrabia, a town appertaining to the emperor, standing near the Ocean Sea upon the frontiers of Biscay and the duchy of Guyenne; and on the other side the Lady Regent was arrived with the children of France at Bayonne, which is not far from Fuenterrabia....

From Project Gutenberg

I therefore wrote to him, and made an Offer to purchase it at my own Expence, if he would give me Leave: But he made me Answer, that a Prussian could not be so chilly as to be sensible of the Cold in Guyenne; and he was so impertinent198 as to add, that if I was really cold, he would have me keep my Bed.

From Project Gutenberg