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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) Poitou
a region and former province in W France.

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1. (noun) Poitou-Charentes, Poitou
a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay

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1. Poitou
formerly a province in France, lying S. of the Loire, between the Vienne River and the sea; passed to England when its countess, Eleanor, married Henry I., 1152; was taken by Philip Augustus 1205, ceded to England again 1360, and retaken by Charles V. 1369.

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