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 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 Joseph Pennell
With the langue d'oc came-15- the various forms of troubadour lyric.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
The cheerful bird-voice of the trouvère, the half artificial but not wholly insincere intensity of his brethren of the langue d'oc, will never miss their meed.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The northern tongue, the langue d'oïl, shows us—in actually known existence, or by reasonable inference that it existed—the national epic or chanson de geste; the southern, or langue d'oc, gives us the Provençal lyric.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
No, no, we'll keep our rebellious langue d'oc, grumble who will.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
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