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Perche

American  
[pairsh, persh] / pɛərʃ, pɛrʃ /

noun

  1. a former division of N France.


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Armand Duplantis improved his own men's pole vault world record to 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

Duplantis improved his best vault by one centimetre with a clearance at 6.22m at the indoor All Star Perche meeting in France in February, beating the mark he set in winning world gold last year.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2023

"She was not at all snobbish," says American academic Anne Hall, who lives in the Perche region and has made a study of the du Mauriers' French connection.

From BBC • Jul. 2, 2022

Following a long love affair with France, the couple became permanent residents in 2003 and had been remodeling a stone farmhouse that dates from the 1700s in the Perche area of Normandy.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2014

That is to say, no distinction is made between Mortain, Moretolium or Moretonium, in the Avranchin, and Mortagne, Mauritania, in Perche.

From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Hutton, William Holden