Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Savoy.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Savoy, a former duchy lying south of Lake Geneva, afterward a part of the kingdom of Sardinia, and in 1860 ceded to France. It forms the two departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Savoy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A native or resident of
Savoy - proper noun The
dialect spoken in Savoy (Savoie and Haute-Savoie inFrance ,canton ofValais inSwitzerland , and in the Italian region of Aosta).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who performs in the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan
- noun a resident of Savoy
Etymologies
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Examples
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SAVOYARD - Peggy Doris Hull Jeffries, 91, of Savoyard, died Sunday, May 9, 2010, at Britthaven of Bowling Green.
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My fervant carried the portmanteau; but he had not gone the length of the ftreet, when the perfon who accompanied me called a Savoyard, and gave it to him, and fent the other away, that, the place might not be known where we were going.
A Series of Letters, Discovering the Scheme Projected by France, in MDCCLIX, for an Intended ... 1767
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Devout Savoyard fans need not worry about any sacred cows being slaughtered.
George Heymont: The Mikado Project (Trouble In Titipu) George Heymont 2011
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Although the menu features classic Savoyard fondue and raclette, Martin's influence means there are also gourmet options like a tempting duck shepherd's pie with pumpkin and the local Beaufort cheese.
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Devout Savoyard fans need not worry about any sacred cows being slaughtered.
George Heymont: The Mikado Project (Trouble In Titipu) George Heymont 2011
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The miniature was one of the great specialities of Savoyard artists.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Conversely, the ascription of Les grans regretz to Agricola in the Savoyard manuscript B-Br 11239 should be disregarded in favour of that to Hayne in F-Pn fr.2245 and US-Wc M2.1.
Archive 2009-05-01 Lu 2009
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But also contains some fifteenth anonymous chansons which appear in no other manuscript of the period, and which may be attributed to a school of Savoyard composers whose names are now lost.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Having become the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia in 1713, what had once been the Savoyard state played a key role in the unification of Italy in the 1850s and 1860s.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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The other cheese beloved in Savoie, the smelly, oozing reblochon, is the star of a Savoyard specialty: the famous tartiflette.
Savoie the Fair 2008
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