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‖ Languedoc|lɑ̃gdɔk|
1. Wine produced in the old province of Languedoc, in the south of France.
1709Addison Tatler No. 131 ⁋7 Two more [drops]..heightened it into a perfect Languedoc. 1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 326 Much lov'd Languedoc that guggles forth From mouth of long-neck'd bottle.
2. langue d'oc, the language spoken in mediæval France in areas roughly south of the Loire, where the use of oc [f. L. hoc] for yes was characteristic of many phonetic variations; opp. langue d'oïl, d'oui, the language spoken in areas north of the Loire, where oïl [f. L. hoc ille] (mod.Fr. oui) was used for yes, and which has developed into standard modern French.
1703Acct. Theatre of War in France, being a Geogr. & Hist. Descr. Languedoc 3, I more approve of the Etymology of those who observe, that, time out of mind, the French have been distinguish'd into Langue d'Ouy, and Langue d'Oc, that is, into such as say Ouy, and such as say Oc for Yes; the first living on this, and the other on that side the River Loire. [1819Scott Ivanhoe II. iii. 42 The knight..asked..whether he would choose a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui... ‘A ballad, a ballad,’ said the hermit, ‘against all the ocs and ouis of France.’] 1854C. M. Yonge Little Duke i. 8 The Normans..had taken up what was then called the Languéd'ouì, a language between German and Latin, which was the beginning of French. 1866― Prince & Page iv. 53 My own children..scarce knew whether they spoke English, Languédoc, or Languéd'ouì. 1885H. James Little Tour in France xx. 134 Meetings at which poems in the fine old langue d'oc are declaimed. 1903G. E. C. Casey Riviera Nature Notes (ed. 2) liii. 377 The various Provençal Dialects are..remnants of the old ‘Langue d'Oc’... The ‘Langue d'Oil’, or northern French was spoken by men more warlike and more barbarous. 1931G. J. Renier The English viii. 156 The Kings of France did what they could to extirpate the Langue d'Oc as soon as they had conquered the southern half of France. 1934M. K. Pope From Latin to Mod. French ii. 17 In the twelfth century the vernaculars of the south and the north (the Langue d'Oc and the Langue d'Oil, as they were called after their particles of affirmation) were held to be distinct languages. 1961P. Green tr. Oldenbourg's Massacre at Montségur i. 8 The great barons of the North, the land of the langue d'oïl,..were by no means all loyal to the French King. |