Provencal Definition

prōvän-säl, prŏvən-
provencals, provencal
adjective
Of Provence or its people, language, or culture.
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noun
The vernacular of S France, a Romance language comprising several dialects.
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The medieval language of S France, a literary language as cultivated by the troubadours.
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A person born or living in Provence.
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Origin of Provencal

  • French from Latin prōvinciālis from prōvincia province

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Provencal Sentence Examples

  • The Angevin king was thereupon set free, leaving three of his sons and sixty Provencal nobles as hostages, promising to pay 30,000 marks and to return a prisoner if the conditions were not fulfilled within three years.

  • In character and interests he was rather Provencal than Spanish, a favourer of the troubadours, no enemy of the Albigensian heretics, and himself a poet in the southern French dialect.

  • The museum, occupying an old Gothic church, is particularly rich in Roman remains and in early Christian sarcophagi; there is also a museum of Provencal curiosities.

  • The family of Riquet, or Riqueti, originally of the little town of Digne, won wealth as merchants at Marseilles, and in 1570 Jean Riqueti bought the château and seigniory of Mirabeau, which had belonged to the great Provencal family of Barras.

  • Their ministers were called barba, a Provencal word meaning guide.

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Words Starting With

PPRPRO

Words Ending With

LALCAL

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Provencal

Words Starting With P and Ending With L

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9 Letter Words9 Letter Words Starting With P9 Letter Words Ending With L