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Vaudois

1 American  
[voh-dwah] / voʊˈdwɑ /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. Waldenses.


Vaudois 2 American  
[voh-dwah] / voʊˈdwɑ /

noun

  • Vaudois
    plural
  1. a native or inhabitant of Vaud.

  2. the dialect of French spoken in Vaud.


Vaudois British  
/ ˈvəʊdwɑː /

plural noun

  1. another name for the Waldenses

  2. the inhabitants of Vaud

"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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Etymology

Origin of Vaudois

< French; Middle French Vaudeis. See Vaud, -ese


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Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found de Vaudois at her heels.

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Esron Rudiger affirms that the Vaudois existed at least 240 years before John Huss, which agrees nearly with Bishop Claude.

From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.

Indeed we have the fullest evidence that the Vaudois preserved the purity of their faith during the ninth and tenth centuries.

From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.

Reply of a Vaudois peasant to an Englishman.

From L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by al.

These grants are of greater value at this moment, when the Vaudois Committee in London is so wisely and assiduously labouring to establish schools of various kinds in these vallies. 

From A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Bexley containing a statement to the committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society by Francis Cunningham

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