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Aude

American  
[ohd] / oʊd /

noun

  1. a department in S France. 2,449 sq. mi. (6,345 sq. km). Carcassonne.


Aude British  
/ od /

noun

  1. a department of S France on the Gulf of Lions, in Languedoc-Roussillon region. Capital: Carcassonne. Pop: 321 734 (2003 est). Area: 6342 sq km (2473 sq miles)

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In the southern Aude region 40 roads were declared impassable with gales of up to 110km/h.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

“We still think that this offer has some potential and it was well-suited to the current circumstances of the market,” Aude Durand, Iliad Group’s deputy chief executive, said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

By contrast, the screenplay, written with Aude Py and Noël, took more than five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2025

"There are fewer and fewer plus-size models on the runways," Aude Perceval, a booker at Plus Agency, a pioneer in plus-size modeling in France, told AFP.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Woman is not yet the object of this tenderness; Charlemagne's peers do not remember Aude while they fight; they expire without giving her a sigh.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules