AUVERGNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Auvergne mean? 

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

1. a region in central France

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUVERGNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region in central France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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

 Context examples 

Sir Tristram de Rochefort, Seneschal of Auvergne and Lord of Villefranche, was a fierce and renowned soldier who had grown gray in the English wars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A happy day it would be for the Seneschal of Auvergne when they should learn that the last yew bow was over the marches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Often in peaceful after-days was Alleyne to think of that scene of the wayside inn of Auvergne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He is Seneschal of Auvergne, and mine old war companion.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In Auvergne the maids are kind, but the wines are sour.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was at the first fall of the leaf that the prince set forth, and he passed through Auvergne, and Berry, and Anjou, and Touraine.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I pray you to gather them together, said Sir Nigel, and I will tell them what is in my mind; for if I am their leader they must to Dax, and if I am not then I know not what I am doing in Auvergne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In a very few minutes they were in full flight for their brushwood homes, leaving the morning sun to rise upon a blackened and blood-stained ruin, where it had left the night before the magnificent castle of the Seneschal of Auvergne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have heard that you have said to them that their souls are as good as ours, and that it is likely that in another life they may stand as high as the oldest blood of Auvergne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was indeed a stricken and a blighted country, and a man might have ridden from Auvergne in the north to the marches of Foix, nor ever seen a smiling village or a thriving homestead.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)