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Definition of Clovis
1. Noun. King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic 'Louis' (466-511).
Definition of Clovis
1. Proper noun. A (American English) city in central northeastern New Mexico. ¹
2. Proper noun. A (American English) city in California. ¹
3. Proper noun. (archeology) A site that contained evidence of an early Native American culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Clovis
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)
"847., says: Three French poems bear the name of Clovis. ... I do not think it
contains any thing worth stealing. 3. Clovis, Poem. ..."
2. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"Clovis flew to the assistance of his kinsman, and defeated the Alamanni in a ...
Clovis TURNS CHRISTIAN (496 AD) The same year is rendered remarkable in ..."
3. The Ancient World from the Earliest Times to 800 A.D. by Willis Mason West (1904)
"The Conversion of Clovis to Catholic Christianity.i—The real importance of the
battle of Strasburg lies in this — that it was the occasion for the ..."
4. The World in the Middle Ages: An Historical Geography, with Accounts of the by Adolph Ludvig Køppen (1854)
"The ambitious and treacherous Clovis then vanquished the ... Henry Luden, in his
excellent history of the German nation, says that Clovis did not pursue the ..."
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