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  • proper noun A former county and province of France, nearly corresponding to the modern-day Charente département, with Angoulême as its capital.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • Delavigne, and Touraine of the author of Eloa; Angoumois that gave birth, in the days of Louis XIII., to our illustrious fellow-countryman Guez, better known under the name of

    Eve and David 2007

  • Delavigne, and Touraine of the author of Eloa; Angoumois that gave birth, in the days of Louis XIII., to our illustrious fellow-countryman Guez, better known under the name of

    Eve and David 2007

  • From this time forward, vague rumors reported the existence of a great man in Angoumois.

    Two Poets 2007

  • The lands of Bargeton, in Angoumois in the barony of

    Two Poets 2007

  • Balzac, our Angoumois need no longer envy Limousin her Dupuytren, nor

    Eve and David 2007

  • The lands of Bargeton, in Angoumois in the barony of

    Two Poets 2007

  • Balzac, our Angoumois need no longer envy Limousin her Dupuytren, nor

    Eve and David 2007

  • From this time forward, vague rumors reported the existence of a great man in Angoumois.

    Two Poets 2007

  • Angoumois grain moth (Sitotroga cerealella) · Secondary pests can only attack broken grain, moist, and thus soft grain, grain damaged by primary pests or processed products, e.g. flour.

    7. Important pests in storage 1996

  • Some of them were not examples of deportment and good breeding; they were gentlemen who had spent all their lives in little castles in Angoumois and Poitou, a kind of noble ploughmen, who had only their silver swords to distinguish them from their vine-growers and herds.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

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