Neustria
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin Neustria. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. further origins,compare Austrasia
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Neustria
- (historical) The western part of the Frankish empire, corresponding roughly to modern-day northern France.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- There shall a Lion from the sea-bord wood / Of Neustria come roring, with a crew / Of hungry whelpes […]
Translations[edit]
western part of the Frankish empire