Doubs

//duː// name

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Besançon.
  2. 2
    A left tributary of the Saône, running through the cantons of Neuchâtel and Jura, Switzerland and the departments of Doubs, Jura and Saône-et-Loire, France.

Etymology

From French Doubs, from Gaulish, from the root of Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”).

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