Maritime Alpsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Maritime Alps pl (複数形 only)

1. A part of the Alps between France and Italy.

   Coordinate term: Cottian Alps

   • 1795, Jean-François Albanis Beaumont, Travels Through the Maritime Alps from Italy to Lyons Across the Col de Tende, by the Way of Nice, Provence, Languedoc, Etc., London: T. Bensley, page 27:

     The city of Coni, from the nature of its ſituation, at the extremity of one of those three grand valleys, which I have heretofore claſſed as primitive, may be said to form a central point of union at the foot of the Cottian and Maritime Alps, to a number of ſecondary valleys which deſcend from theſe tremendous heights.