Meanings
alternative Gevaudan
- historicalA former county and historical area in southern France succeeded by the department of Lozère.
With a physical description that defied belief, and the ability to strike quickly, evade detection, and confound its pursuers, the mysterious beast had attacked and killed dozens of people in and around the remote mountainous region of the Gévaudan in the southern province of Languedoc.
2011, Jay M. Smith, Monsters of the Gévaudan: The Making of a Beast, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 1
Origin
- Gaulish*Gabli
- LatinGabalitanus
- OccitanGavaudan
- FrenchGévaudan
- EnglishGévaudan
Borrowed from French Gévaudan, from Occitan Gavaudan or Gevaudan, from Latin Gabalitanus, from Gabali, ultimately from Gaulish *Gabli.
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