Artois

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  1. 1
    A geographic region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.

    "The chestnut was chestan ( O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois."

  2. 2
    A census-designated place in Glenn County, California, United States.

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"The chestnut was chestan ( O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois."

Etymology

Borrowed from French Artois.

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