Picardy

Speech parts

1. Picardy - Noun

2. Picardy - Proper noun

Meaning

a region of northern France on the English Channel

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Picardie arras spice picard Calais mischief piquancy craftiness roguery Beauvais Chantilly mischievousness Amiens Abbeville rascaldom
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Related terms

picard

Phrases with the word

Picardy sweat Picardy sweating sickness

Examples

After an aborted siege of Cambrai, Edward led his army on a destructive chevauchée through Picardy, destroying hundreds of villages all the while shadowed by the French. Source: Internet

After the regency ended, Maximilian and Charles VIII of France exchanged these two territories for Burgundy and Picardy in the Treaty of Senlis (1493). Source: Internet

Between that year and the peace of 1659 he had taken part in or directed ten sieges with distinction, had been wounded several times, and was rewarded by the king with the free gift of a company in the famous Picardy regiment. Source: Internet

Charles Martel died on October 22, 741, at Quierzy-sur-Oise in what is today the Aisne département in the Picardy region of France. Source: Internet

The Portfolio of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230) Perpetuum Mobile of Villard de Honnecourt (about 1230) Villard de Honnecourt (Wilars dehonecort, Vilars de Honecourt) was a 13th-century artist from Picardy in northern France. Source: Internet

Other alternative names are Région Flandre(s)-Artois, Hauts-de-France, ('Upper France') and Picardie-du-Nord ('Northern Picardy '). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

Picardian Picardie Picardo Picardy Spaniel Picardy sweat Picardy sweating sickness