Nièvre

[ nye-vruh ]

noun

1. a department in central France. 2,659 sq. mi. (6,885 sq. km). : Nevers.

Nièvre

/ njɛvrə /

noun

1. a department of central France, in Burgundy region. Capital: Nevers. Pop: 222 298 (2003 est). Area: 6888 sq km (2686 sq miles)

Example Sentences

Attal said the government was considering adding the Rhone, Aube and Nievre regions to its list of COVID-19 high-risk zones which need careful monitoring and may need restrictive measures.

From Reuters

Take a town I know well, Cosne-sur-Loire in the unfashionable Nievre department, south-east of Paris.

From BBC

They took their eldest child, John, with them; Niki, then a few months old, was sent to her grandparents’ château, in Nièvre.

From The New Yorker

An official report on the Nievre in 1844 described the strange mutation of the Burgundian day-laborer once the harvest was in and the vine stocks had been burned: “After making the necessary repairs to their tools, these vigorous men will now spend their days in bed, packing their bodies tightly together in order to stay warm and eat less food. They weaken themselves deliberately.”

From Literature

You didn’t have to live abroad to be a legitimate citizen of the world, I decided; it was by investing yourself in the place you lived that you created the world’s legitimate variety — her Nièvre farm, my parents’ Indiana college town, my Manhattan.

From New York Times