Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/July 14

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Word of the day
for July 14
cisalpine adj
  1. On this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located).
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Cisalpine (of or pertaining to Gallicanism (the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope); of or pertaining to cisalpinism (a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated from various legal restrictions))

Marie Paradis from Chamonix (then part of the Kingdom of Sardinia), became the first woman to climb Mont Blanc, Western Europe’s highest mountain, on this day in 1808.

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