POITOU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Poitou mean? 

• POITOU (noun)
  The noun POITOU has 1 sense:

1. a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay

  Familiarity information: POITOU used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POITOU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Poitou; Poitou-Charentes

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Holonyms ("Poitou" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

Further back are knights from Quercy, Limousin, Saintonge, Poitou, and Aquitaine, with the valiant Sir Guiscard d'Angle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here were the high stewards of Aquitaine, of Saintonge, of La Rochelle, of Quercy, of Limousin, of Agenois, of Poitou, and of Bigorre, with the banners and musters of their provinces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It chanced, however, that a knight of Poitou, Sir Gaston d'Estelle, was staying there on his way back from Lithuania, where he had served a term with the Teutonic knights under the land-master of the presbytery of Marienberg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)