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Savoy Alps

American  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in SE France: a part of the Alps. Highest peak, Mont Blanc, 15,781 feet (4,810 meters).


Savoy Alps British  

plural noun

  1. a range of the Alps in SE France. Highest peak: Mont Blanc, 4807 m (15 772 ft)

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Skiing France's Savoy Alps might sound glamorous, but-the amazing off-piste terrain notwithstanding-its resorts are far from the intimate Savoyard villages of our imaginations.

From Time Magazine Archive

The summer holiday was spent in a new haunt among the Savoy Alps, and Browning missed the familiar stimulus of the sea-air.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

Not a cloud was in the arching heavens, not a ripple on the blue surface of the lake, which mirrored forth the hoary crowns of the Savoy Alps as though they were cut in steel.

From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford

The subject was arranged under three heads:— I. The Materials of the Savoy Alps.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin

The ibex belongs to the Carpathians, the Pyrenees, and the Savoy Alps, though it is now but rarely found in places where it was once abundant.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

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