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Pyrenees, n. pl.|pɪrəˈniːz|
Also 7 Pyrenes, Pir-, Pyreneys, Pirhenese.
[a. F. Pyrénées, ad. L. Pȳrēnæī (sc. montes): see prec.]
Name of the range of mountains separating France and Spain.
[1555Eden Decades Pref. (Arb.) 53 In the mountaines named Pyrinei th[e] inhabitantes burnt vp the wooddes. ]1632Lithgow Trav. x. 440 The South Pendicles of the high Pirhenese. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 27 These parts of the Pyreneys that border upon the Mediterranean are never without Theeves. 1693Morden Geogr. Rect. (ed. 3) 206 Extending from the Pyrenes..Southwards. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XV. 683/2 Pyrenean Mountains, or Pyrenees. 1837Alison Hist. Europe VI. xlix. 510 Napoleon..felt with Louis XIV, that it was necessary there should be no longer any Pyrenees.
†b. attrib. (in sing. form Pyrenee, -ey). Obs.
1608Topsell Serpents 598 A Serpent in the Pireney Mountains. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 27, I pass'd between som of the Pyreney Hills. |