French-Provençal

Proper noun

French-Provençal

1. (nonstandard, rare) Franco-Provençal, Arpitan.
   • From the district so influenced by the Provençal, we pass by some intermediate grades, to that which is plainly French-Provençal, above all in the valleys of the southern Stura, of Oreo (Val SoanaL of the Dora Baltea (Val d'Aosta).1912, Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines, The Americana: a universal reference library, volume 11
   • The Saône and the Rhône are considered the eastern limits of French, since beyond these rivers from Bescançon on the north to Grenoble on the south a mixed dialect called French-Provençal was used.1917, Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, The New International Encyclopædia, volume 9, page 245