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è
[ ee-zair ]
noun
- a river in SE France, flowing from the Alps to the Rhone River. 150 miles (240 km) long.
- a department in SE France. 3,180 sq. mi. (8,235 sq. km). : Grenoble.
è
/ ɛ /
noun
- a department of SE France, in Rhône-Alpes region. Capital: Grenoble. Pop: 1 128 755 (2003 est). Area: 7904 sq km (3083 sq miles)
- a river in SE France, rising in the Graian Alps and flowing west and southwest to join the River Rhône near Valence. Length: 290 km (180 miles)
Example Sentences
That followed slaloms being scrapped in Val d'Isere, France in December because of rain and snow, and Bansko, Bulgaria after heavy rain in February.
Cyrielle Chatelain, a French lawmaker who represents the mountainous è region and leads a group of environmentalist parties in Parliament, said that it was wrong to say that “all farmers are angry with the Greens.”
But in è, Ms. Chatelain said, no bird would nest in a hedge on March 15 because the hedge is still frozen.
Separately, in è, a 31-year-old man was killed after falling some 500 metres in the Écrins Massif.
VAL D’ISERE, France — Federica Brignone dominated to win a World Cup super-G on Sunday and trim the gap in the overall standings to Mikaela Shiffrin, who was one of many top skiers to fail to finish at Val d’Isere.
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