Cévennes

[ sey-ven ]

noun(used with a plural verb)
  1. a mountain range in S France. Highest peak, Mt. Mézenc, 5,753 feet (1,754 meters).

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How to use Cévennes in a sentence

  • A mountaineer of the Cévennes, brought up on chestnuts, his dazzled eyes blinked at the flower-bedecked tables of Paris.

    A Mummer's Tale | Anatole France
  • We were in the Cévennes about as soon as we had passed Alais.

    The Car That Went Abroad | Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Jurieu, by his burning pamphlets, excited the insurrection of Cévennes.

British Dictionary definitions for Cévennes

Cévennes

/ (French sevɛn) /


noun
  1. a mountain range in S central France, on the SE edge of the Massif Central. Highest peak: 1754 m (5755 ft)

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