Nivernais

[ nee-ver-ne ]

noun

1. a former province in central France. : Nevers.

Nivernais

/ nivɛrnɛ /

noun

1. a former province of central France, around Nevers

Example Sentences

Sancerre crowns the topmost height of a chain of hills, the last of the range that gives variety to the Nivernais.

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Not all visitors to Canterbury were so evilly entreated as the Duc de Nivernais.

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Her famous "Labourage Nivernais," now in the Luxembourg, was painted in 1848.

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Mazarin had obtained letters confirming him in the possession of the Duchy of Nivernais and Donzois in 1720.

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Then he turned westwards through the Nivernais and the Bourbonnais, and led his army through the uplands of Auvergne.

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