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Definition of Provencal
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture.
2. Noun. The medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France).
Definition of Provencal
1. Proper noun. (alternative form of Provençal) due to the character ç being difficult to type. ¹
2. Adjective. Of or relating to Provence. ¹
3. Proper noun. A language or dialect spoken in Provence. ¹
4. Proper noun. Specifically, the modern Romance Occitan language of Provence; Occitan. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provencal
Literary usage of Provencal
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)
"During the 18th century the standard of provencal literature declined in originality
of subject, form and purity of language. ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"RDTA provencal text with French prose translation at foot of page. ... NM provencal
text and French prose translation on opposite pages. Janvier Collection. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"While Catalan was strongly influenced by provencal in a literary way, the language of
... Catalan poetry, strongly influenced by the provencal troubadour, ..."
4. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"ORIGIN OF THE provencal LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. — BARCELONA. ... provencal literature
appeared in Spain as early as any portion of the Castilian, ..."
5. A Summary of the Literatures of Modern Europe: (England, France, Germany by Marian Edwardes (1907)
"36 provencal POETRY. The lyric was the chief feature of provencal poetry ; the South
... The J 2th and I3th centuries covered the golden period of provencal ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"To Dante, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, it was provencal as
distinguished from the lengua materna, or Italian: and provencal it is, ..."
7. History of Provençal Poetry by Claude Charles Fauriel (1860)
"THE rapidity with which the taste for provencal literature spread through the
rest of ... From the moment the countries of the provencal tongue had detached ..."
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