Crossword-Solution: LANDES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LANDES | anagram | ALDENS, ELANDS, LENDSA, SENDAL |
We have 4 clues for the answer “LANDES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A Department in S W France. | 1 answer |
| Heaths, in France | 1 answer |
| sandy region | 1 answer |
| Marshy region | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LANDES (5)
The third was begun early in 1850, and included the department of the Landes, the higher and lower Pyrenees, and other districts in the South of France.
With him came Aylward and Hordle John, armed as of old, but mounted for their journey upon a pair of clumsy Landes horses, heavy-headed and shambling, but of great endurance, and capable of jogging along all day, even when between the knees of the huge archer, who turned the scale at two hundred and seventy pounds.
Limayrac was supposed to have become a blossom: "Sur les coteaux et dans les landes Voltigeant comme un oiseleur Buloz en ferait des guirlandes Si Limayrac devenait fleur!" There is more of high spirits than of wit in the lyric, which became as popular as our modern invocation of Jingo, the god of battles.
The Wizard of the Landes tells us of the ordinary Tarantula, that of the Calabrias, observed by him in Spain: '_Lycosa tarantula_ by preference inhabits open places, dry, arid, uncultivated places, exposed to the sun.
After this curious duel, I kept the victorious Tarantula alive for several weeks.' My district does not boast the ordinary Tarantula, the Spider whose habits have been described above by the Wizard of the Landes; but it possesses an equivalent in the shape of the Black-bellied Tarantula, or Narbonne Lycosa, half the size of the other, clad in black velvet on the lower surface, especially under the belly, with brown chevrons on the abdomen and grey and white rings around the legs.
Quotes with LANDES (2)
Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’il lit, trouve, sans se désorienter, son chemin abrupt et sauvage, à travers les marécages désolés de ces pages sombres et pleines de poison ; car, à moins qu'il n’apporte dans sa lecture une logique rigoureuse et une tension d’esprit égale au moins à sa défiance, les émanations mortelles de ce livre imbiberont son âme comme l’eau le sucre. Il n’est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui von…
Abignades or abegnades A term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1951–1972).