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Armorican, a.|ɑːˈmɒrɪkən|
[f. Armorica + -an.]
1. = Armoric s.v. Armorica; also as n., an inhabitant of Armorica.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. xlix. 33, I will that this lond *Armorican be callyd lytel britayn. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 78 The *Armoricans or the inhabitants of Britany. 1875Whitney Life Lang. x. 183 The *Armorican..so nearly allied to the Cornish.
2. Geol. Of or pertaining to mountain-building movements which occurred towards the end of the Palæozoic era, or the mountains then formed, traceable from southern Ireland across southern Britain and Brittany to central France. Hence Arˈmoricanoid a., resembling such a movement.
1906H. B. C. Sollas tr. Suess's Face of Earth II. 93 This is the great pre-Permian range of western Europe. The traces of its interior and presumably most elevated zone lie in Brittany and the Vendée; for this reason we give these fragments the general name of the Armorican chain. 1913C. Lapworth Birmingham Country 43 E.W...is suggestive of the..‘Armorican Movement’ of Northern France and the southern part of the British Isles; but to avoid all implications whatsoever of geological age, this trend in the Midlands can only be safely referred to as Armoricanoid. 1960L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. (ed. 5) xii. 123 The Carboniferous Period was brought to a close by the great Armorican earth movements. Ibid. 124 The Armorican mountains and valleys determined the main pattern of the geography which was destined to persist throughout the Mesozoic. |