piedmont has definitions from the fields of government,Italian,geography
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[ noun ] (geography) the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; so_that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper_limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old_South from the new , but with , of_course , important minority enclaves .

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geographical_area South

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[ noun ] (government,Italian,geography) the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley

Synonyms

Piemonte

Related terms

Italian_region Italy Turin

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