Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Piedmont"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Piedmont \Pied"mont\, a. [F. pied foot + mont mountain.] (Geol.)
Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain
chain.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Piedmont
n 1: the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian
Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South
Carolina and Georgia and Alabama [syn: {Piedmont}]
2: the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
[syn: {Piedmont}, {Piemonte}]
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