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

  • A historical region and former province of central France traversed north to south by the Auvergne Mountains, a chain of extinct volcanoes. Auvergne became part of the French royal domain in 1615.

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  • noun a region in central France.

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  • proper noun A région and historical province of France.

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  • noun a region in central France

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Examples

  • At the head of the famous Auvergne regiment, “Auvergne sans tache” (Auvergne the spotless), as it was called, he took part in the chief battles of the Seven Years’ War, notably in the victory of Klostercamp, where spotless Auvergne had 58 officers and 800 soldiers killed or wounded, the battle made memorable by the episode of the Chevalier d’Assas, who went to his heroic death in the fulfilment of an order given by Rochambeau.

    Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. II 1916

  • Count Rochambeau followed Lafayette after the alliance, and brought over with him among his regiments the grenadiers of Auvergne -- _Auvergne sans tache_, which motto they honored at Yorktown.

    True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • Auvergne, and he had been associated with the heroes of Gatinais, whose motto was _Auvergne sans tache_.

    True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • She lived in Auvergne and became a hermit at a young age.

    02/01/2003 - 03/01/2003 John 2003

  • In the late war in Germany, M. D’Assas, a French officer of the regiment of Auvergne, is said to have devoted himself in a similar manner.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • It was built on a mountain, near a little town of the same name, in that part of France called Auvergne, which now constitutes part of the present Departments of the Upper Loire and

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • He was not disconcerted by this loss, which he had always expected, but sheltered and clothed the fugitives, and raised a great body of archers and of horsemen, with whom he returned to his own territory in Auvergne.

    A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

  • It was built on a mountain, near a little town of the same name, in that part of France called Auvergne, which now constitutes part of the present Departments of the Upper Loire and

    Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Complete [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584

  • It was built on a mountain, near a little town of the same name, in that part of France called Auvergne, which now constitutes part of the present Departments of the Upper Loire and

    Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois — Volume 1 [Court memoir series] Queen Marguerite 1584

  • The two had a date in his cabin, where he would provide tea while they screened d'Auvergne's Fifth Chromophony.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

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