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Definition of Poitiers

1. Noun. The battle in 1356 in which the English under the Black Prince defeated the French.

Definition of Poitiers

1. Proper noun. A city in France, capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Poitiers

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"1097), a native of Loudun; St. William of Aquitaine, Count of poitiers (1099-1137), excommunicated as a partisan of the Schism of Anacletus, and convert«! ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"1097), a native of Loudun; St. William of Aquitaine, Count of poitiers (1099-1137), excommunicated as a partisan of the Schism of Anacletus, and converted ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The church of St. Peter of Chauvigny (eleventh and twelfth centuries) has some admirable sculpture work; and the town of poitiers is a veritable museum of ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Among the secular buildings the first place belongs to the law courts, formerly the palace of the dukes of Aquitaine and counts of poitiers, and rebuilt ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Among the secular buildings the first place belongs to the law courts, formerly the palace of the dukes of Aquitaine and counts of poitiers, and rebuilt ..."

6. Readings in European History: A Collection of Extracts from the Sources by James Harvey Robinson (1904)
"(From ' Truly this battle, the which was near to poitiers in the fields ... The pursuit endured to the gates of poitiers. There were many slain and beaten ..."

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