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loire
/lɔɪɹ/
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What does loire mean?
proper noun
- The longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
- A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Saint-Étienne.
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IPA pronunciation
/lɔɪɹ/
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The coalition of the Loire mines has posited the social question in terms which permit no more evasion.
This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand’s son-in-law, who has already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called “the disgrace of his family.”
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At eleven the prisoners were conducted to the place of execution, which was in the meadow of Biesse, on the further side of the Loire.
The journey took him far southward, through green Touraine and across the far-shining Loire, into a country where the early spring deepened about him as he went.
From this elevation, shortly after 11 a.m., he sighted the sea, when he commenced a descent which brought him to earth at the mouth of the Loire.