Landes

[ lahnd ]

/ lɑ̃d /

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noun

a department in SW France. 3,615 sq. mi. (9,365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.

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Words nearby Landes

Landdrost, landed, landed immigrant, Landé factor, lander, Landes, Landeshauptmann, landfall, landfast, landfill, land flowing with milk and honey

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How to use Landes in a sentence

Rabbi Landes, you want to sound open-minded about Purim by offering gifts to your adversaries—as you say, to a BDSer.
How To Take Purim Seriously|Shaul Magid|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I am sorry, Rabbi Landes, but I could never celebrate Purim the same way after 1994.
How To Take Purim Seriously|Shaul Magid|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rabbi Landes cites Baruch Goldstein with the same embarrassment many of us feel.
How To Take Purim Seriously|Shaul Magid|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Distinguished names in this tradition include Edward Banfield, Robert Putnam, and David Landes.
What Romney Meant to Say (Part 3)|David Frum|August 2, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Many of the landes were cleared and converted into excellent pasturage, and on the coast market-gardening made great progress.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
The desolation of the Landes is an ordered, a commercial desolation.
A Tramp's Notebook|Morley Roberts
They are employed by the peasantry of the country near Bordeaux to traverse those deserts of loose sand called Landes.
Quentin Durward|Sir Walter Scott
The department which borrows its name from the Landes of Gascony is divided by the Adour into two wholly dissimilar parts.
The Desert World|Arthur Mangin
Es wre Spanisch oder Franzsisch und dazu eines Landes minder.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV|J. H. Merle D'Aubign

British Dictionary definitions for Landes

Landes

/ (French lɑ̃d) /

noun

a department of SW France, in Aquitaine region. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan. Pop: 341 254 (2003 est). Area: 9364 sq km (3652 sq miles)

a region of SW France, on the Bay of Biscay: occupies most of the Landes department and parts of Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne; consists chiefly of the most extensive forest in France. Area: 14 000 sq km (5400 sq miles)

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