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

Example Sentences

I shall take you to one of my farms in Poitou, where you will live henceforth with your mother.

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The king became so greatly alarmed that he fled from Poitou, after giving orders to arrest and imprison all the lepers in France.

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In France, in Poitou, and in Brittany he had sent more to the stake than any other man living.

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Fragment of a letter concerning the wonders which happened in Poitou, in Trial, vol.

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Through lack of victuals preparations were being made for retreat into Poitou.

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