Morbihan

[ mawr-bee-ahn ]

noun

1. a department in W France. 2,738 sq. mi. (7,090 sq. km). : Vannes.

Morbihan

/ mɔrbiɑ̃ /

noun

1. a department of NW France, in S Brittany. Capital: Vannes. Pop: 665 540 (2003 est). Area: 7092 sq km (2766 sq miles)

Example Sentences

The largest known is the Menhir of Locmariaquer in Morbihan, now fallen and broken.

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Just then one of those light boats used by the Irish seamen shot out from the bay of Morbihan by the safe channel.

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He quotes the opinion of M. le Gall, who, in an unpublished flora of Morbihan, declares the plant foreign to Brittany.

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The missionary was a poor young man from the village of Aradon, in Brittany, in the Morbihan country.

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The tides rise to a great height along this whole southern coast of Brittany, and in the Bay of Morbihan they have full play.

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