Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the south of France, a tract of waste land covered with the holm-oak, Quercus Ilex, and the Aleppo pine. Pinus hierosolymitana, and other scrub growth, and having a calcareous soil.
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- noun A type of low
scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of theMediterranean Basin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.
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Marika, The cabanon is located high in the garrigue (scrubland) above the village of Les Arcs-sur-Argens
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She might have been a hunter walking up the dirt path, wearing the colors of combat: the green of the garrigue* and the black of the French forest at night.
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Cart him off to the wild garrigue* and he will begin chewing on the local herbs (good for the gums, I wonder?).
Jean-Marc 2009
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Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.
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Marika, The cabanon is located high in the garrigue scrubland above the village of Les Arcs-sur-Argens
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Past the fallen barn, the land plunged into a valley of vines bordered by a spring water creek and a wild, thyme-scented garrigue.
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References: l'autoroute (f) du soleil = superhighway of the sun; indispensable = essential; la garrigue (f) = wild mediterranean scrubland
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