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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • French colonial administrator who governed New France (1672–1682 and 1689–1698) and held Quebec against the British in King William's War (1690).

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  • Frontenac is a crossing of the Landot 4511 hybrid and a very cold hardy selection of Vitis riparia.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2009

  • Frontenac is a crossing of the Landot 4511 hybrid and a very cold hardy selection of Vitis riparia.

    Hudson Valley Wine 2009

  • Frontenac is a crossing of the Landot 4511 hybrid and a very cold hardy selection of Vitis riparia.

    Windham Vineyards 2008 Estate Select Frontenac Gris 2009

  • My preview of this Saturday's concert of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, featuring Trio Frontenac, is in today's LeaderPost.

    My preview of Trio Frontenac ewillett 2009

  • When my grandfather was farming in Frontenac County in eastern Ontario, there were over 185,000 farms in Ontario.

    Ontario's Place in World Agriculture 1983

  • I liked the name Frontenac first rate, and Point Vivian, and the name of the hotel on St. Lawrence Park, Lotus, seemed highly appropriate for the idle hours of rest and pleasure in the balmy summer-time.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • We're about 12 miles or so from Plaza Frontenac, which is sort of the middle-the heart of that market, of the best part of the market, and it's due east.

    unknown title 2011

  • Oda made the announcement, alongside Kandahar Governor Tooryalai Wesa, at the Canadian Forces forward operating base Frontenac, which is near the dam.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Dustan of Haverhill, with her trophy of ten scalps, for which she received a bounty of £50 (Parkman, "Frontenac," 1898, p. 407, note).

    The Frontier in American History Frederick Jackson Turner 1896

  • The brilliant biographer of "Frontenac" and author of the, "Old Regime," thus sums up from the official correspondence of the French Governors and

    Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

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