Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the south of France, a tract of waste land covered with the holm-oak, Quercus Ilex, and the Aleppo pine. Pinus hierosolymitana, and other scrub growth, and having a calcareous soil.

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  • noun A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.

Etymologies

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From French garrigue.

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Examples

  • Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.

    reveillon - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Marika, The cabanon is located high in the garrigue (scrubland) above the village of Les Arcs-sur-Argens

    chouia - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • She might have been a hunter walking up the dirt path, wearing the colors of combat: the green of the garrigue* and the black of the French forest at night.

    mise en bouteille / wine bottling 2009

  • Cart him off to the wild garrigue* and he will begin chewing on the local herbs (good for the gums, I wonder?).

    Jean-Marc 2009

  • Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.

    French Word-A-Day: 2009

  • Jean-Marc is marinating garrigue sanglier for roasting in our cheminée.

    reveillon - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Marika, The cabanon is located high in the garrigue scrubland above the village of Les Arcs-sur-Argens

    chouia - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Past the fallen barn, the land plunged into a valley of vines bordered by a spring water creek and a wild, thyme-scented garrigue.

    bercail - French Word-A-Day 2007

  • References: l'autoroute (f) du soleil = superhighway of the sun; indispensable = essential; la garrigue (f) = wild mediterranean scrubland

    bercail - French Word-A-Day 2007

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