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Definition of Pyrenees

1. Noun. A chain of mountains between France and Spain.

Definition of Pyrenees

1. Proper noun. The mountain range separating Spain from France, inhabited by Basques in the west and Catalans in the east. ¹

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Literary usage of Pyrenees

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The principal passes in the pyrenees formed by the meeting of valleys from ... The number of thermal springs existing iti the pyrenees seems to indicate the ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The principal passes in the pyrenees formed by the meeting of valleys from ... The number of thermal springs existing in the pyrenees seems to indicate the ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"The Basses-P. occupies the northern slopes of the Western pyrenees, offshoots from ... This department, which is the richest part of the pyrenees in mineral ..."

4. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"The representatives, Fabre and Gaston, full of Crd insisted on attacking the camp of the Spaniards, in order to drive them beyond the pyrenees ; but the ..."

5. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The Cantabria n Mountains of the north coast of Spain are a continuation of the pyrenees, so that the entire mountain system extends from Cape Creus in the ..."

6. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"pyrenees ; a range of mountains dividing France from Spain, extending, ... The acclivity of the pyrenees, on the side of Spain, is often extremely steep, ..."

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