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
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Not merely Catalonia itself, but Aragon, Navarre, and even Valencia, were linguistically for centuries mere outlying provinces of the langue d'oc.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
The langue d'oc and the langue d'oil contended for the mastery, which was finally won by the latter.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Renier has studied the feminine ideal of the Provençal poets, the troubadours who used the "langue d'oc."
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock
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
French was called langue d'oïl, and the southern language langue d'oc, each after the word used for "yes."
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
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