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Gévaudan

Gévaudan proper noun: a former county and historical area in southern France succeeded by the department of Lozère.

gévaudan: a former county and historical area in southern France succeeded by the department of Lozère
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Proper noun

Gévaudan

  1. (historical) A former county and historical area in southern France succeeded by the department of Lozère.
    • With a physical description that defied belief, and the ability to strike quickly, evade detection, and confound its pursuers, the mysterious beast had attacked and killed dozens of people in and around the remote mountainous region of the Gévaudan in the southern province of Languedoc.2011, Jay M. Smith, Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 1

Forms of Gévaudan

alternative formGevaudan

Origin of Gévaudan

Borrowed from French Gévaudan, from Occitan Gavaudan or Gevaudan, from Latin Gabalitanus, from Gabali, ultimately from Gaulish *Gabli.

Questions about Gévaudan

What does Gévaudan mean?
Gévaudan means a former county and historical area in southern France succeeded by the department of Lozère.
What part of speech is Gévaudan?
Gévaudan is a proper noun.

Words near Gévaudan in the dictionary

  1. gégène
  2. génocidaire
  3. génocidaires
  4. génoise
  5. génoises
  6. Gévaudan
  7. Gê'gyai
  8. Gêrzê
  9. gîte
  10. gîtes
  11. Gò Vấp

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