Meanings
- A geographic region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Hauts-de-France.
The chestnut was chestan ( O. Fr. chastaigne); the wild cherry, gean or guin (Fr. guigne), a word still in use, and the name of which may be derived from Guienne, notwithstanding a notion prevailing in the north that the blackaroon, or blacksherry, was originally brought from Guines, in Artois.
1882, Francisque Michel, A Critical Inquiry Into the Scottish Language with the View of Illustrating the Rise and Progress of Civilisation in Scotland, page 61
Origin
- LatinAtrebatēs
- Old FrenchArteis
- Middle FrenchArtois
- Middle EnglishArtoys
- EnglishArtois
Inherited from Middle English Artoys, from Middle French Artois, Artoys, from Old French Arteis, from Latin Atrebatēs; the modern pronunciation has been readjusted after modern French Artois.
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Artois. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Artois
“Artois.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Artois. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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