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Poitou

[pwa-too]

noun

  1. a region and former province in W France.

  2. Gate of, a wide pass near Poitiers.



Poitou

/ pwatu /

noun

  1. a former province of W central France, on the Atlantic. Chief town: Poitiers

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Alvance also has castings plant in Poitou and auto wheel plant in Diors.

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The marquis here keeps a kennel of 70 hunting hounds — half English foxhound and half French Poitou.

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Once there were elm trees lining both sides of the Poitou here—nothing but stumps now, because over the last three years they’ve all been cut down for firewood.

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Neighbours there told France Bleu Poitou she came from a "really generous family".

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Today the beneficiaries are more likely to be in Poitou than in Paris.

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