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US
/ˈpidˌmɑnt/
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[ UK /pˈiːdmɒnt/ ]
[ UK /pˈiːdmɒnt/ ]
NOUN
- the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
- the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
How To Use Piedmont In A Sentence
- A group of scientists from the University of South Carolina in Columbia says that they've used geological anomalies, as well as clues from rock samples, to identify an ancient crater buried beneath the piedmont sediments of their state.
- Our southern ally's loyalty to her beautiful "unredeemed" provinces, and her claim, which all right-minded Englishmen (I include myself) most heartily endorse, to dominate the historically Italian waters of the Adriatic, happily proved too strong for a machine-made sympathy for Berlin based on nothing better than a superficial resemblance between the histories of Piedmont and Prussia, and a record of nominal alliance with powers whose respect for paper treaties was always fairly apparent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917
- Since so little was known of the species' ecology or distribution, work concentrated in the central piedmont, especially the Broad River watershed.
- In this study, we examine the suitability of dendrochronology to uncover climatic responses in tree rings at small scales in two species of pine on the Virginia Piedmont.
- Then normal candidates for Italian unification are Sardinia-Piedmont, the Papal States, or the Two Sicilies.
- More recently, in 2009, the top Piedmontese producer La Spinetta began making Vermentino in Tuscany, too, under the name Casanova della Spinetta. The Wine of Yachts and Beaches
- The presence of plants on predominantly north facing slopes suggests that plants are unable to tolerate the driest sites or sandy soils that are common in many areas of the piedmont.
- Too many marching alexandrine feet for me, pieds, like the pied in the Pied Piper or the Piedmont, but not impediment, though I once saw a man wearing a pedometer the Lone Ranger had sent him. Poetic Justice
- Looks like the second ruts is kicking in around my home in the lower piedmont now. Weekly Rut Report
- Even before the incident, the emperor had spoken informally with associates of Cavour about an eventual alliance with Piedmont against Austria.