LIMOUSIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Limousin mean? 

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

1. a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIMOUSIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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

 Context examples 

According to the IMERG calculations, those areas include the regions of eastern Britanny, south through Pays De La Louire, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

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)

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)

Here rode dark-browed cavaliers from the sunny south, fiery soldiers from Gascony, graceful courtiers of Limousin or Saintonge, and gallant young Englishmen from beyond the seas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Parbleu!” he cried, “the cause of quarrel? Why, mon petit, it was years ago in Limousin, and how can I bear in mind what was the cause of it? Simon there hath it at the end of his tongue.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)