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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”).

Related phrases

franche comté

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