Crossword-Solution: TOURAINE
We have 3 clues for the answer “TOURAINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The "Garden of France." | 1 answer |
| Former French province | 2 answers |
| LOIR-et-Cher region | 2 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAGT
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TOURAINE (5)
The journey took him far southward, through green Touraine and across the far-shining Loire, into a country where the early spring deepened about him as he went.
Armiger thought of it; and a young gentleman who had made a trip in Touraine had recently inscribed to her the wide-margined result of his explorations.
The king sent word that he might come, if he would, with a small retinue, but not with his present following; and the duke, who was mightily on his high horse after all the ovations he had received, took the king’s attitude amiss, and turned aside into Touraine, to receive more welcome and more presents, and be convoyed by torchlight into faithful cities.
Even the great Duguesclin gamed away all his property in prison.(38) The Duc de Touraine, brother of Charles VI., 'set to work eagerly to win the king's money,' says Froissart; and transported with joy one day at having won five thousand livres, his first cry was--_Monseigneur, faites-moi payer_, 'Please to pay, Sire.' (38) Hist.
Say, did Ronsard sing to you, Shepherdess, to lull his pain, When the court went wandering through Rose pleasances of Touraine? Ronsard and his famous Rose Long are dust the breezes fret; You, within the garden close, You are blooming, Colinette.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).