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Middle French
Etymology
Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region. (Respelled to be closer to the Latin spelling.)
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Poictiers m
- Poitiers (a city in France)
1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:Lors dist Pantagruel, pleut à dieu que chascun, de vous eussent deux paires de sonnettes de sacre au menton, & que ie eusse au mien les grosses horologes de Renes, de Poictiers, de Tours, & de Cambray, pour veoir l'aubade que nous donnerions au remuement de noz badigoinces- (please add an English translation of this quotation)