PICARDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Picardy mean? 

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

1. a region of northern France on the English Channel

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICARDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A region of northern France on the English Channel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Picardie; Picardy

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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

 Context examples 

With my own eyes I saw him in the rout sweep the head from a knight of Picardy with one blow of his sword.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those regions where the heaviest rainfall were found include Nord-pas-de-calais, Picardy, Isle of France – where Paris is located, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Centre and Franche-Comte.

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

After him, riding three abreast, were nine men-at-arms, all picked soldiers, who had followed the French wars before, and knew the marches of Picardy as they knew the downs of their native Hampshire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remember such a one in Picardy, with a name as long as a Gascon's pedigree.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By my hilt! our young one here is as white as a Picardy cheese.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To pierce the great mountains of the south, to fight the tamers of the fiery Moors, to follow the greatest captain of the age, to find sunny cornfields and vineyards, when the marches of Picardy and Normandy were as rare and bleak as the Jedburgh forests—here was a golden prospect for a race of warriors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peter Karsdale, who was but a common country lout newly brought over, with the English fleas still hopping under his doublet, laid his great hands upon the Sieur Amaury de Chatonville, who owns half Picardy, and had five thousand crowns out of him, with his horse and harness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is certain also, that the brave and worthy Bertrand de Guesclin hath ridden into France to the Duke of Anjou, and purposes to take back with him great levies from Picardy and Brittany.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)