Landes
a department in SW France. 3,615 sq. mi. (9,365 sq. km). Capital: Mont-de-Marsan.
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How to use Landes in a sentence
Rabbi Landes, you want to sound open-minded about Purim by offering gifts to your adversaries—as you say, to a BDSer.
I am sorry, Rabbi Landes, but I could never celebrate Purim the same way after 1994.
Rabbi Landes cites Baruch Goldstein with the same embarrassment many of us feel.
Distinguished names in this tradition include Edward Banfield, Robert Putnam, and David Landes.
Many of the Landes were cleared and converted into excellent pasturage, and on the coast market-gardening made great progress.
The desolation of the Landes is an ordered, a commercial desolation.
A Tramp's Notebook | Morley RobertsThey are employed by the peasantry of the country near Bordeaux to traverse those deserts of loose sand called Landes.
Quentin Durward | Sir Walter ScottThe department which borrows its name from the Landes of Gascony is divided by the Adour into two wholly dissimilar parts.
The Desert World | Arthur ManginEs wre Spanisch oder Franzsisch und dazu eines Landes minder.
History of the Great Reformation, Volume IV | J. H. Merle D'Aubign
British Dictionary definitions for Landes
/ (French lɑ̃d) /
a department of SW France, in Aquitaine region. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan. Pop: 341 254 (2003 est). Area: 9364 sq km (3652 sq miles)
a region of SW France, on the Bay of Biscay: occupies most of the Landes department and parts of Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne; consists chiefly of the most extensive forest in France. Area: 14 000 sq km (5400 sq miles)
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