Golfe du Lion

[ gawlf dy lee-awn ]

noun

1. French name of the Gulf of Lions.

Example Sentences

It is bounded N.E. by Gard, N.W. by Aveyron and Tarn, and S. by Aude and the Golfe du Lion.

From Project Gutenberg

Used also of the gulf usually called the Gulf of Lyons, but in French La Golfe du Lion, or “Gulf of the Lion,” from its stormy water. 

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By steaming around in the Golfe du Lion the French Fleet could keep a good part of the British Mediterranean Fleet disengaged without firing a salvo.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the south the Orb, the H�rault and the Vidourle are independent rivers flowing to the Golfe du Lion; farther north, the Gard—formed by the union of several streams named Gardon—the C�ze and the Ard�che flow to the Rhone.

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As they entered the Golfe du Lion their ship was captured by a Spanish corsair and taken to Rosas.

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