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Definition of Anjou
1. Noun. A former province of western France in the Loire valley.
Generic synonyms: French Region
Member holonyms: Angevin, Angevine
2. Noun. A pear with firm flesh and a green skin.
Definition of Anjou
1. Proper noun. a former county, duchy and province in the northwest of modern-day France. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anjou
Literary usage of Anjou
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1896)
"ENGLAND AND Anjou S7O TO 1154 The Count* en Anjou now restored her to her father.
He recognized her as his heir, though the succession of a woman seemed ..."
2. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"I mean the dynasty of the Counts of Anjou. That house, the house which mounted
... Anjou Charac- holds a peculiar position among the great fiefs of France. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The Duke of Anjou, as holding in addition Lorraine, Provence, the titular crown
of Naples, ... The independence of Anjou, like that of most of the later ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"However that may be, on the death of the latter (loth of July 1480) he again
added Anjou to the royal domain. Later, King Francis I. again gave the duchy as ..."
5. The Age of Elizabeth by Mandell Creighton (1881)
"Anjou departed, for he could be no longer absent from the Netherlands. ...
Perhaps she wished to see how Anjou would succeed in the Netherlands before ..."
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