Meanings of loir in English

The Loir, male, is the river, not La Loire of the feminine gender.

Just one month ago from the date of writing this page, Villiers in Loir et Cher.

The place is called Le Gué du Loir.

The forts along the Sarthe, the Loir, and the Loire had fallen into the hands of Philip.

Beyond the Loir-notthe Loire-S.S.W.

"From the village of Vernoy, in the province of Eure-et-Loir, sire."

Jasmine de Loir stepped forward, cocking her oversized head back, the better to sneer down her aristocratic nose at me.

Jauréguiberry, however, entreated Barry to continue guarding the river Loir, in the hope of Curten being able to retreat to that point.

What are these frontier fortresses but the same on an extensive scale as the Gué du Loir, the Roche Corail, and the Rochebrune?

The widower, who from the Beauce country, sent his son to his native village in the Eure-et-Loir to be brought up by kinsfolk there.

In the broad valley of Le Loir below Vendôme, the great elevated chalk plateau of Beauce has been cut through, leaving precipitous white sides.

At Sougé, on the Loir, a little below the troglodyte town of Trôo already described, half-way up the cliff is the cave-chapel of S. Amadou.

These are typical of countless others on the Seine, the Loir, the Loire, and its tributaries, as also on the Dronne and Dordogne.]

* Prefect of Loir and Cher.

[Illustration: GUÉ DU LOIR.