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Maritime Alps

Maritime Alps proper noun: a part of the Alps between France and Italy.

maritime alps: a part of the Alps between France and Italy
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Proper noun

Maritime Alps pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A part of the Alps between France and Italy.
    • The city of Coni, from the nature of its ſituation, at the extremity of one of those three grand valleys, which I have heretofore claſſed as primitive, may be said to form a central point of union at the foot of the Cottian and Maritime Alps, to a number of ſecondary valleys which deſcend from...1795, Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, Travels Through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons Across the Col de Tende, by the Way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, Etc., London: T. Bensley, page 27

Questions about Maritime Alps

What does Maritime Alps mean?
Maritime Alps means a part of the Alps between France and Italy.
What part of speech is Maritime Alps?
Maritime Alps is a proper noun.

Words near Maritime Alps in the dictionary

  1. mariticide
  2. mariticides
  3. maritimal
  4. maritimale
  5. maritime
  6. Maritime Alps
  7. maritime archaeology
  8. maritime archeology
  9. Maritime Canada
  10. maritime earwig
  11. maritime earwigs

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