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VALOIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Valois mean? 

VALOIS (noun)
  The noun VALOIS has 1 sense:

1. French royal house from 1328 to 1589play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


VALOIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

French royal house from 1328 to 1589

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Valois" is a kind of...):

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

Meronyms (members of "Valois"):

Henry II (king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559))

Henry III (son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589))


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