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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in the Auvergne Mountains of south-central France and flowing about 485 km (300 mi) southwest to join the Garonne River north of Bordeaux and form the Gironde estuary.
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- proper noun A department in southwest France, in the region of
Aquitaine - proper noun A river that flows from south-central France into the
Garonne
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Examples
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Nothing about Botswana and not much about the Dordogne is the true answer.
Sunday Salon: Placeism on the Dordogne and in Botswana Maxine 2008
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Nothing about Botswana and not much about the Dordogne is the true answer.
April 2008 Maxine 2008
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Nothing about Botswana and not much about the Dordogne is the true answer.
Sunday Salon: Placeism on the Dordogne and in Botswana Maxine 2008
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We chose the site (near Carnac in Dordogne) from a guide featuring only 3 - and 4-star sites, my thinking being that these were the likeliest to have halfway decent toilets.
Bang! and the summer is gone! « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009
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We will also be visiting an area of France called Dordogne where there are some prehistoric caves.
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Dordogne, which is a conical structure some forty feet high, containing a circular mortuary chapel on the ground-floor and towards the top a pharos or lantern, and that at Avioth (Meuse), containing an open sanctuary supported by columns and a glazed lantern above.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The Dordogne is a river that cannot be followed throughout its savage wildernesses, except perhaps in a light flat-bottomed boat, and then not without serious difficulties.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Hither he came for quietude, and here he wrote his 'Télémaque,' a historical trace of which is found in a little island of the Dordogne, which is called 'L'Ile de Calypso.'
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Lying in the Corrèze at no great distance from the Dordogne is the town of Ussel -- a name that approaches much more nearly the sound of Uxellodunum.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Just north of the Dordogne are the Lascaux caves, with their famous animal paintings from 17,000 or 18,000 B.C.
Thestar.com - Home Page Jim Byers 2011
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