Outremern.
/ˈuːtrəmɛː/, U.S. /ˌutrəˈmɛ(ə)r/ French History.
The medieval French crusader states, including Armenia, Antioch, Tripoli (Lebanon), and Jerusalem. Also more generally: French-speaking regions lying across the Mediterranean from mainland France.
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1833 H. W. Longfellow Outre-Mer i. 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.
1895 H. F. Brown Venice (ed. 2) vii. 117 They had been sent by the noble Barons of France, who had taken the Cross, to beg Venice to have pity on the ‘Land of Outremer’, and to provide ships of war and transport.
1930 H. 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.
1963 Listener 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.
1993 V. Sage Mirror for Larks 99 I could hear Désirée's outre-mer French all the way down the staircase floating up through the central stairwell as we clattered down the marble explaining how everyone in Kinshasa uses witchdoctors to protect their families.
1998 Differences 10 112 The eminently successful First Crusade installed the crusader states and fiefdoms of ‘Outremer’ as colonies of Latin Europe overseas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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