Puy-de-Dôme

[pwee-duh-dohm]

noun

1. a mountain in central France. 4,805 feet (1,465 meters).

2. a department in central France. 3,095 sq. mi. (8,015 sq. km). Clermont-Ferrand.

Puy de Dôme

/ pwi də dom /

noun

1. a department of central France in Auvergne region. Capital: Clermont-Ferrand. Pop: 609 817 (2003 est). Area: 8016 sq km (3094 sq miles)

2. a mountain in central France, in the Auvergne Mountains: a volcanic plug. Height: 1485 m (4872 ft)

Example Sentences

The pulsating duel between Pogacar and Vingegaard is expected to resume during Sunday’s ninth stage, which finishes with a spectacular climb to Puy-de-Dome, a famed volcanic crater in the Massif Central region of south-central France which last hosted a stage 35 years ago.

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The ninth stage on July 9 sees a spectacular climb to Puy-de-Dome, a famed volcanic crater in the Massif Central region of south-central France which last hosted a stage 35 years ago.

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Publication was important within this group, but no more important than private and semi-public correspondence: Mersenne wrote letters to Italy, Poland, Sweden and Holland announcing Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment.

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This chapter began in 1648, with Pascal’s Puy-de-Dôme experiment, but Pascal was not the first experimental scientist.

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Second, Pascal devised the Puy-de-Dôme experiment.

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