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Guyenne

British  
/ ɡɥijɛn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Guienne

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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

After fifteen days such ecclesiastics as shall not have obeyed the preceding dispositions should be deported to French Guyenne.

From Project Gutenberg