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ProvenCal

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Pro`ven`Cal´
a.1.Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
n.1.A native or inhabitant of Provence in France.
2.The Provencal language. See Langue d'oc.
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Noun1.Provencal - the medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France)
Occitan
Langue d'oc, Langue d'oc French - medieval provincial dialects of French formerly spoken in the south of France
Adj.1.provencal - of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture
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If the Mediterranean, the venerable (and sometimes atrociously ill- tempered) nurse of all navigators, was to rock my youth, the providing of the cradle necessary for that operation was entrusted by Fate to the most casual assemblage of irresponsible young men(all, however, older than myself) that, as if drunk with Provencal sunshine, frittered life away in joyous levity on the model of Balzac's "Histoire des Treize" qualified by a dash of romance DE CAPE ET D'EPEE.
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One of its chiefs, who understood Provencal, begged the commune of Marseilles to give them this bare and barren promontory, where, like the sailors of old, they had run their boats ashore.
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