English

Adjective

Rhodanian ‎(not comparable)

1. Of or aboriginal to the Rhône valley.
   • 2011, Sara B. Pritchard, Confluence, chapter 2, page 66:

     As an article in Paris match put it, Donzère-Mondragon enabled the “return to old sources [of energy] in order to forge the future,” and other journalists emphasized that the CNR’s “development plan” would “safeguard Rhodanian partimony” for “future generations” and continue to allow traditional activities such as fishing.‎

   • ibidem, chapter 7, page 224:

     Some fishers opposed Brégnier-Cordon because it would destroy several lônes, a specifically Rhodanian term for the small, temporary islands created by the river’s meanders that created especially rich fish habitat.‎

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Noun

Rhodanian ‎(plural Rhodanians)

1. An inhabitant of the Rhône valley.
   • 2011, Sara B. Pritchard, Confluence, chapter 1, page 42:

     [Léon Perrier’s] regional statism crystallized…the decades-old conflicts among constituencies in the Rhône valley, and between Parisians and Rhodanians.‎

   • ibidem, chapter 5, page 179:

     [S]ome communities along the lower Rhône complained that the BRL’s project allowed inland residents to receive “their” water, a grievance that echoed Rhodanians’ objections in the late nineteenth century, when Parisians and northern industrialists had sought access to Rhône-produced electricity.‎

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:Rhodanian.

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