garrigue
English
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Noun
garrigue (countable and uncountable, plural garrigues)
- A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 246:
- Far away, on the stony garrigues by the fading light of the harvest moon one could hear the musical calling of wolves.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 246:
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French
Further reading
- “garrigue” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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