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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The Italian journalist and writer from Piedmont founded Slow Food in 1986, in protest against the opening of the first fast food restaurants in the country.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
He died on Thursday in Bra, a town in Italy's north-western Piedmont region, Slow Food said.
From BBC ● May 22, 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
But there were all those little hard ones, like Hesse and Tuscany and Piedmont.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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
It thrives in Alabama piedmont, Louisiana bayous, the Carolina coastal plain, and the suburban sprawls of Atlanta, Nashville, Raleigh, and Birmingham.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 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
They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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