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VALOIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Valois mean?
• VALOIS (noun)
The noun VALOIS has 1 sense:
1. French royal house from 1328 to 1589
Familiarity information: VALOIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
French royal house from 1328 to 1589
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Valois" is a kind of...):
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
Meronyms (members of "Valois"):
Henry II (king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559))
Henry III (son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589))
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