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

  • A historical region of northern France bordering on the English Channel. The name was first used in the 1200s for a number of small feudal holdings. Picardy was contested by France and England during the Hundred Years' War and became part of the French crown lands in 1477.

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  • proper noun A région of France.

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  • noun a region of northern France on the English Channel

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Examples

  • To prepare for his journey he wrote to Ratramnus, a monk of Corbie in Picardy, asking for information regarding the dog-heads, whom he thought he might encounter.

    August 4th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • I am anxious lest the little line I wrote you may bring you back; reassure me and tell me you are still at Marseille [the château de Marseille in Picardy].

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • “poor and honest” at Rollot, a little bourg in Picardy some two leagues from Montdidier.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • We rush through Picardy, which is mainly yellow, and then past Strasbourg which is largely green.

    Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • The Magistrates caused cottages and workshops to be erected on a piece of unoccupied land near Edinburgh, where the street appropriately called Picardy Place now stands, ” the greater number of the weavers having come from Picardy in France.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

  • Hart has no big-picture sense of the place of the Great War in the narrative of the 20th century — he is as committed to the mud of Flanders and Picardy as his forebears were.

    The Pity of War 2009

  • La Tour 1704–1788, the son of a musician, was born in Saint-Quentin, a small town in Picardy, France.

    A Tour de Force, Honest and Engaging James Gardner 2011

  • Hart has no big-picture sense of the place of the Great War in the narrative of the 20th century — he is as committed to the mud of Flanders and Picardy as his forebears were.

    The Pity of War 2009

  • It commemorates the deaths in June 1933, during the Picardy grand prix meeting, of a pair of Bugatti drivers.

    Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One architect is off on the wrong track 2010

  • She asked us if we could play "Roses of Picardy" like Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, because it was her very favorite song.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

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