Allier
Americannoun
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a river flowing N from S France to the Loire. About 250 miles (400 km) long.
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a department in central France. 2,850 sq. mi. (7,380 sq. km). Moulins.
noun
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a department of central France, in Auvergne region. Capital: Moulins. Pop: 342 307 (2003 est). Area: 7382 sq km (2879 sq miles)
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a river in S central France, rising in the Cévennes and flowing north to the Loire. Length: over 403 km (250 miles)
Example Sentences
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The chauffeur drove Admiral Darlan down past Paris and Orleans, past Nevers and the country of the milk-white cows, across the demarcation line at Moulins and up the stony Allier to Vichy.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were subsequently allowed by Caesar to settle in the territory of the Aedui between the Loire and the Allier.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various
Through this sorry landscape trickled the Allier and a tributary of nearly equal size, which came down to join it through a broad nude valley in Vivarais.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
I came out at length above the Allier.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
Outside Paris the writer has found this combination but seldom in France; at Lyons, Marseilles, Moulins in the Allier, and at Chatellerault in Poitou only.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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