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Outremer, n. Hist.
(ˈuːtrəmɛər, ‖ utrəmer)
[a. F. outre-mer adv. (as in pays or département d'outre-mer), f. outre beyond + mer sea.]
The land beyond the sea: applied to the medieval French crusader states.
1833Longfellow Outre-Mer 7, I, too, in a certain sense, have been a pilgrim of Outre-Mer; for to my youthful imagination the old world was a kind of Holy Land. 1930H. Lamb Crusades I. xl. 262 Outremer..consisted of Armenia, the principality of Antioch and the county of Edessa on the north, the long strip of the principality of Tripoli in the centre, and on the south the kingdom of Jerusalem. 1963Listener 14 Mar. 471/1 By the time of the first crusades the cities of Outremer were all rich treasuries for a barbarian rabble to pillage. 1985J. M. Roberts Triumph of West iv. 129 By then, the inherent weakness of the Christians of ‘Outremer’ (‘Beyond the sea’) had been amply demonstrated. |