Landes

[ lahnd ]

noun

1. a department in SW France. 3,615 sq. mi. (9,365 sq. km). : Mont-de-Marsan.

Landes

/ lɑ̃d /

noun

1. a department of SW France, in Aquitaine region. Capital: Mont-de-Marsan. Pop: 341 254 (2003 est). Area: 9364 sq km (3652 sq miles)
2. a region of SW France, on the Bay of Biscay: occupies most of the Landes department and parts of Gironde and Lot-et-Garonne; consists chiefly of the most extensive forest in France. Area: 14 000 sq km (5400 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Rabbi Landes, you want to sound open-minded about Purim by offering gifts to your adversaries—as you say, to a BDSer.

From The Daily Beast

I am sorry, Rabbi Landes, but I could never celebrate Purim the same way after 1994.

From The Daily Beast

Rabbi Landes cites Baruch Goldstein with the same embarrassment many of us feel.

From The Daily Beast

Distinguished names in this tradition include Edward Banfield, Robert Putnam, and David Landes.

From The Daily Beast

Many of the landes were cleared and converted into excellent pasturage, and on the coast market-gardening made great progress.

From Project Gutenberg

The desolation of the Landes is an ordered, a commercial desolation.

From Project Gutenberg

They are employed by the peasantry of the country near Bordeaux to traverse those deserts of loose sand called Landes.

From Project Gutenberg

The department which borrows its name from the Landes of Gascony is divided by the Adour into two wholly dissimilar parts.

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Es wre Spanisch oder Franzsisch und dazu eines Landes minder.

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