Maritime Alps en · PROPN
Meanings
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(plural, plural-only) A part of the Alps between France and Italy.
The city of Coni, from the nature of its ſituation, at the extremity of one of those three grand valleys, which I have heretofore claſſed as primitive, may be said to form a central point of union at the foot of the Cottian and Maritime Alps, to a number of ſecondary valleys which deſcend from theſe tremendous heights.
1795, Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, Travels Through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons Across the Col de Tende, by the Way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, Etc., London: T. Bensley, page 27:
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Translations (2)
de Seealpen (part of the Alps) · de Meeralpen (part of the Alps)