Languedoc
noun
a former province in S France. Toulouse.
Languedocian
-
a word derived from
Languedoc.
Example Sentences
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They all scream together in Languedocian, which, by-the-bye, is anything but melodious here when spoken by the common people.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
Charles Lamb would have lived ecstatically at the Languedocian capital.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
Now may some Languedocian Wordsworth turn the sonnet into patois: ‘Mountains and vales and floods, heard YE that whistle?’
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The offspring of the Languedocian Sphex religiously consume the Ephippiger, that family dish so dear to their ancestors and no less dear to their descendants; no innovation in the ancient usages can tempt them.
From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The hostess of this inn, while cooking the inevitable fowl for lunch, basted it after the Languedocian fashion, of which I had taken note elsewhere.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
