Auvergnese

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person from the Auvergne region in-plural

    "The little Auvergnese retired highly delighted, […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, from, or pertaining to the region of Auvergne in France

    "[…] as for the others, they at once fall back upon an Auvergnese patois, at least as different from ordinary French as a Durham miner's vernacular is from a West countryman's."

Example

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"[…] as for the others, they at once fall back upon an Auvergnese patois, at least as different from ordinary French as a Durham miner's vernacular is from a West countryman's."

Etymology

From Auvergne + -ese.

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