Noun: Provençal
| Singular | Provençal |
| Plural | Provençals; Provençaux |
Sample Sentences
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The Normans were putting it about that the Provençals were experts at foraging, to the neglect of fighting. Their children had a refrain with which they taunted their southern French counterparts: ‘the Franks go to fight, the Provençals to food’. [2011, Conor Kostick, The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:]
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French provenceal, provençal, from Latin prōvinciālis. See: Latin Nouns '
prōvinciālis'.