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adjective ˈvəʊdwɑːvōˈdwä Relating to Vaud, its people, or their dialect of French. Example sentencesExamples - ‘A nuclear plant takes 10 years to build,’ says Vauthier in an English heavily accented with the Vaudois French he spoke growing up in the Jura mountains north of Lake Geneva.
noun ˈvəʊdwɑːvōˈdwä 2mass noun The French dialect spoken in Vaud.
nounˈvəʊdwɑːvōˈdwä historical A member of the Waldenses religious sect. Example sentencesExamples - The church of Rome and its Italian princes had deeply disgraced themselves by their conduct to the unhappy Vaudois.
- Milton's sonnet itself was only one episode in a long series of British connections with the Waldensians, not only in centuries when they were usually referred to as Vaudois but in the age of Italian unification when they became Valdesi.
- The towns and lands of the Vaudois were restored.
adjectiveˈvəʊdwɑːvōˈdwä Relating to the Waldenses.
Origin Mid 16th century: French, representing medieval Latin Valdensis (see Waldenses). adjectivevōˈdwä Relating to Vaud, its people, or their dialect of French. Example sentencesExamples - ‘A nuclear plant takes 10 years to build,’ says Vauthier in an English heavily accented with the Vaudois French he spoke growing up in the Jura mountains north of Lake Geneva.
nounvōˈdwä 2The French dialect spoken in Vaud.
nounvōˈdwä historical A member of the Waldenses religious sect. Example sentencesExamples - Milton's sonnet itself was only one episode in a long series of British connections with the Waldensians, not only in centuries when they were usually referred to as Vaudois but in the age of Italian unification when they became Valdesi.
- The towns and lands of the Vaudois were restored.
- The church of Rome and its Italian princes had deeply disgraced themselves by their conduct to the unhappy Vaudois.
adjectivevōˈdwä Relating to the Waldenses.
Origin Mid 16th century: French, representing medieval Latin Valdensis (see Waldenses). |