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Old Provençal

Old Provençal proper noun: romance language spoken in the south of France which is considered the origin of modern Provençal, also known as Occitan.

Proper noun

Old Provençal

  1. (dated) Romance language spoken in the south of France which is considered the origin of modern Provençal, also known as Occitan.
    • The old Provençal tongue, beloved of knights and troubadours, and forever associated in our minds with romance and chivalry, had become so debased by low singers of tavern songs, that its poetry was only “a riot of coarse speech, which had slain modesty in the ears of the young.”1872, Edward Everett Hale, editor, Old and New, volume VI, page 471
    Synonyms:
    Old Occitan

Synonyms of Old Provençal

Questions about Old Provençal

What does Old Provençal mean?
Old Provençal means romance language spoken in the south of France which is considered the origin of modern Provençal, also known as Occitan.
What part of speech is Old Provençal?
Old Provençal is a proper noun.

Words near Old Provençal in the dictionary

  1. Old Point Comfort
  2. Old Polabian
  3. Old Polish
  4. Old Port
  5. Old Portuguese
  6. Old Provençal
  7. Old Prussian
  8. Old Prussians
  9. Old Punjabi
  10. Old Radnor
  11. old ral

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