GIRONDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gironde mean? 

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

1. the French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIRONDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Gironde" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)

Derivation:

Girondist (a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins)

 Context examples 

The Gironde lies before us, and once over the bar, and under shelter of the Tour de Cordouan, all will be well with us.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Behind them might still be seen the broad estuary of the Gironde, with the high towers of Saint Andre and Saint Remi shooting up from the plain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was on the morning of Friday, the eight-and-twentieth day of November, two days before the feast of St. Andrew, that the cog and her two prisoners, after a weary tacking up the Gironde and the Garonne, dropped anchor at last in front of the noble city of Bordeaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dull scraping came from beneath, the vessel quivered and shook, at the waist, at the quarter, and behind sounded that grim roaring of the waters, and with a plunge the yellow cog was over the bar and speeding swiftly up the broad and tranquil estuary of the Gironde.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here too were the beautiful brunettes of the Gironde, with eyes which out-flashed their jewels, while beside them rode their blonde sisters of England, clear cut and aquiline, swathed in swans'-down and in ermine, for the air was biting though the sun was bright.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)