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Definition of Loire
1. Noun. The longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean.
Definition of Loire
1. Proper noun. One of the départements of Rhône-Alpes, France ¹
2. Proper noun. A river of France ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loire
Literary usage of Loire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Le lyonnais, dans le Rhône, l'Ain et la Saône-et-loire. Sir Isaac Newton was an
only and posthumous child ; he could therefore have had no very near kindred ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"loire, the longest river of France, rising in the Gerbier de Jonc in the ...
After a course of 18 m. in Ardèche it enters Häute-loire, in which it follows a ..."
3. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"This was at Coueron, a small commune in the arron- dissement of Saint-Nazaire,
on the right bank of the loire, nine miles west of Nantes ..."
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