AQUITAINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aquitaine mean? 

• AQUITAINE (noun)
  The noun AQUITAINE has 1 sense:

1. a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees

  Familiarity information: AQUITAINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUITAINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Aquitaine; Aquitania

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Holonyms ("Aquitaine" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

“I have had occasion to tell you more than once that things are not ordered in this way in Aquitaine.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Could they not set up five archers for the honor of Aquitaine and of Gascony?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That done, said King Pedro, glancing out of the corners of his eyes at the young conqueror, we shall unite the forces of England, of Aquitaine, of Spain and of Majorca.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my soul! as long as I am seneschal of Aquitaine I will find enough to do in guarding the marches which you have entrusted to me.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here were the high stewards of Aquitaine, of Saintonge, of La Rochelle, of Quercy, of Limousin, of Agenois, of Poitou, and of Bigorre, with the banners and musters of their provinces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind the thrones there stood two men in purple gowns, with ascetic, clean-shaven faces, and half a dozen other high dignitaries and office-holders of Aquitaine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“By St. Thomas of Kent! we are at the beck of our master, but we are not to be ordered by every babe whose mother hath sent him as far as Aquitaine.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Welcome to Aquitaine, Sir Nigel Loring and Sir Oliver Buttesthorn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is Sir William Felton, who, with my unworthy self, is the chief counsellor of the prince, he being high steward and I the seneschal of Aquitaine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Further back are knights from Quercy, Limousin, Saintonge, Poitou, and Aquitaine, with the valiant Sir Guiscard d'Angle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)