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Clovis   /klˈoʊvɪs/   Listen
Clovis

noun
1.
King of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy; his name was rendered as Gallic 'Louis' (466-511).  Synonym: Clovis I.



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... and action of this rule, as it combines with the older one. St. Augustine's, accepted heartily by Clovis, and, with various degrees of understanding, by the kings and queens of the Merovingian dynasty, makes seemingly little difference in their conduct, so that their profession of it remains a scandal to Christianity to this day; and yet it lives, in the true ...
— The Pleasures of England - Lectures given in Oxford • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Clovis" :   frank, Rex, male monarch, king


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