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French
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Proper noun
Ponant m
- (dated) Western Europe
- (dated) the western Mediterranean
- Antonym: Levant
La Sicile était la plus florissante des colonies grecques du Ponant.- Sicily was the most prosperous of the Greek colonies in the western Mediterranean.
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