a plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains, including parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.
Italian Piemonte. a region in NW Italy. 4,540,822; 11,335 sq. mi. (29,360 sq. km).
a city in W California, near Oakland.
(lowercase) a district lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.
Italian name: Piemonte. a region of NW Italy: consists of the upper Po Valley; mainly agricultural. Chief town: Turin. Pop: 4 231 334 (2003 est). Area: 25 399 sq km (9807 sq miles)
a low plateau of the eastern US, between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains
From the Italian word Piemonte literally, foothill
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He died on Thursday in Bra, a town in Italy's north-western Piedmont region, Slow Food said.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
Producers also want to strengthen their tourism offerings for food enthusiasts, as Piedmont and Tuscany have already done for wine.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Milan is Italy's second-largest city after Rome, and its metropolitan area stretches across much of Lombardy and into eastern Piedmont.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2026
In Piedmont, dairy-rich cooking leans into butter, cheese, and slow braises.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026
A small farmer before the war, and twice a widower, Duke was always on the edge of ruin, scratching a living from the lean soil of the northern Piedmont.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
He grew up a poor “little nobody,” as he has described it, in Jamestown, a one-traffic-light town in North Carolina’s agricultural piedmont.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2025
Now, it is a larger and maturing display that shows how you can take the plants of the Mid-Atlantic mountains, piedmont and coastal plain and use them in pleasing combinations.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
Shortly before the Trail of Tears, William Bartram documented sizable peach orchards in the Cherokee and Creek lands of Appalachia and the Georgia piedmont.
From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2021
Looking at the painting, as an Atlanta native, I recognized, in a general way, the rolling, tree-covered piedmont landscape and blood-stained red clay.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 6, 2019
In a town in the piedmont they’d slept in a place like this and listened to the rain.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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