langue d'oc
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of langue d'oc
1700–10; < French: language of oc, yes < Latin hōc ( ille fēcit ) this (he did); cf. Occitan
Example Sentences
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The poets proper of the langue d'oc were probably too proud to admit any form that they had not invented themselves.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The Provençal writers take their peculiar langue d’oc too seriously to regard it as a dialect.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas)
The Félibrige movement appears to have endowed southern France with a literary language rivalling the French; it appears to have given an impulse toward the unification of the dialects and subdialects of the langue d'oc.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred
The society was founded in the fourteenth century, and it has held annual meetings ever since—meetings at which poems in the fine old langue d'oc are declaimed and a blushing laureate is chosen.
From A Little Tour of France by Pennell, Joseph
These words, too, he transforms more or less, keeping them in harmony with the forms peculiar to the langue d'oc.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Downer, Charles Alfred
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