Rhone
[ron]
Definition
(noun.) a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles; 'the valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards'.
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Examples
- A cold wind was coming down the Rhone Valley. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The mountains on the other side of the lake were all white and the plain of the Rhone Valley was covered. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- An excitement that could no longer affect sane adults was spread among the children in the south of France and in the Rhone Valley. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Rhone Valley was under the separate kingdom of the Burgundians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I have been doing odds and ends at Avignon, at Pont Esprit, at Lyons; upon the Rhone, upon the Saone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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