Orléanais

American

[awr-ley-a-ne] / ɔr leɪ aˈnɛ /

noun

a former province in N France. Orléans.

Orléanais British

/ ɔrleanɛ /

noun

a former province of N central France, centred on Orléans

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Brooks’ column, which characterized poor New Orleanais as uneducated criminals, inept mothers, and immoral womanizers, and which Rangel read in its entirety for the Congressional record, is a conceptual poisoned apple.

From Slate

This year the Orleanais shipped a collection of art to Wichita, to be exhibited next month.

From Time Magazine Archive

Marcous are found in all parts of France, but particularly in the Orléanais.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the important researches of Mantellier, Mémoires de la Société Archéologique de l'Orleanais, vol.

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While Clarence penetrated by Normandy and Maine into the Orleanais and a second English force sailed for Calais, both the French parties joined in pledging their services to King Charles "against his adversary of England."

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